[Python-Dev] Partial function application 'from the right'

[Mike Klaas]

On 29-Jan-09, at 3:38 PM, Daniel Stutzbach wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Mike Klaas <mike.klaas at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> And yet, python isn't confined to mathematical notation.  *, ** are  
>> both overloaded for use in argument lists to no-one's peril, AFAICT.
>
> Certainly, but there is no danger of confusion them for  
> multiplication in context, whereas:
>
> split_comma = partial(str.split, ..., ',')
>
> to me looks like "make ',' the last argument" rather than "make ','  
> the second argument".

Yes, I agree.  I mistakenly thought that that was the proposal under  
discussion (that partial(f, ..., 2) == right_curry(f, 2))

-Mike