Ted Lilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a side note, I'm familiar with the term currying from a friend who > learned ML and Scheme quite some time ago. Not sure if that's the true > origin, but it was a sufficiently different context from Python (or at > least I thought) that I didn't want to rely on its meaning. I was also > sufficiently unsure of it's _exact_ meaning,
The exact meaning is reasonably well explained, together with the origins, on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currying That meaning shouldn't change if applied to different computer languages. I can understand the temptation to confuse partial application with currying (for languages like Python which take tuples of arguments by default, currying is one way to make partial application possible; supplying default arguments is another), but nonetheless they are different things. - Dirk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
