Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Curried function terminology

2009-10-06 Thread David Virebayre
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Jon Fairbairn jon.fairba...@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: [1] A pet peeve of mine is x supports y being used backwards (as in our application supports windows Vista, which would only make sense if it were something like a system tool that stopped Vista crashing. (Not a

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Curried function terminology

2009-10-06 Thread Jon Fairbairn
David Virebayre dav.vire+hask...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Jon Fairbairn jon.fairba...@cl.cam.ac.uk wrote: [1] A pet peeve of mine is x supports y being used backwards (as in our application supports windows Vista, which would only make sense if it were something

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Curried function terminology

2009-10-05 Thread Jon Fairbairn
michael rice nowg...@yahoo.com writes: This is from Learn You A Haskell: == Curried functions Every function in Haskell officially only takes one parameter. So how is it possible that we defined and used several functions that take more than one parameter so far? Well, it's a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Curried function terminology

2009-10-05 Thread Daniel Fischer
Am Montag 05 Oktober 2009 11:52:17 schrieb Jon Fairbairn: michael rice nowg...@yahoo.com writes: This is from Learn You A Haskell: snip The language (in CAPS) in the above two paragraphs seems to be backwards. It is. 5 is applied to that function should be 5 is supplied to that function

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Curried function terminology

2009-10-05 Thread michael rice
Fairbairn jon.fairba...@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Curried function terminology To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Date: Monday, October 5, 2009, 5:52 AM michael rice nowg...@yahoo.com writes: This is from Learn You A Haskell: == Curried functions Every function in Haskell