On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 7/18/2011 8:24 AM, Paul Woolcock wrote:
Partial function application (or "currying") is the act of taking a
function with two or more parameters, and applying some of the arguments
in order to make a new function.  The "hello world" example for this
seems to be this:
<snip>

def makeadder(y)
    def _add(x): return x+y
add2 = makeadder(2)

<snip>

A couple of typos in that code:


def makeaddr(y):
    def _add(x): return x+y
    return _add


DaveA

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