Currying is when you write a function in such a way as it can be partially applied, so in languages like haskell, it "curries" all functions by default then (and I guess for other ML derivatives??).
On May 16, 9:40 am, Andres Almiray <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, Scala supports a terser syntax for currying as you have shown, > but you're missing Robert's point: OCaml (as well as other languages > like Groovy) support currying any function, regardless of how it was > defined. In the case of the Scala option you depicted > _you_have_to_know_ in advance you'd like to curry that function. > > So, while other languages support curry "on the go" not so in Scala, > you have to take a moment to think what you want to accomplish, which > is *not* a bad idea to start with. > > On May 15, 2:45 am, Viktor Klang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sorry man, seems that you've basically misinformed. > > > Define a top-level function: > > > object f extends ((Int) => Int) { def apply(x:Int) = x + 1 } > > > Currying: > > > def f(x:Int)(y:Int) = x + y > > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Robert Fischer < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > If Dick is going to keep going on about how functional and mathematical > > > Scala is, and how that's so > > > great, maybe he should check out OCaml/F#? > > > > I've just posted to my blog about how Scala is *not* a functional > > > language. > > > Which is not to say > > > it's a bad language -- it's just not a functional language. > > > >http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/scala-not-functional/ > > > > ~~ Robert Fischer. > > > Grails Training http://GroovyMag.com/training > > > Smokejumper Consultinghttp://SmokejumperIT.com > > > Enfranchised Mind Bloghttp://EnfranchisedMind.com/blog > > > > Check out my book, "Grails Persistence with GORM and GSQL"! > > >http://www.smokejumperit.com/redirect.html > > > -- > > Viktor Klang > > Rockstar Developer --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
