L Spice <[email protected]> writes: >> Doaitse Swierstra wrote:
>>>One of this differences between Haskell and Clean I did not see mentioned in >>> this discussion is that Clean does not allow so-called partial >>> parametrisation. I.e. all function calls have to be fully saturated >> I don't understand what you mean. Can you give an example ? > I think the idea was that Clean doesn't support a syntax like "map > (**2)" This terminology is new to me, I would normally call that "partial application". Googling "partial parametrization" gives me some papers¹ that appear to use this term as a synonym. I'm surprised that (if) Clean doesn't support it. -k ¹ http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=5420616 and http://www.springerlink.com/content/wg64116566522061/ -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
