[Python-ideas] Syntactic sugar to declare partial functions

[Neil Girdhar]

I prefer partial since many programmers studied computer science, and also
it makes the concepts easier to google.

Anyway, I don't actually want either a partial member nor new syntax for
this, but if I had to choose, I'd choose no new syntax.

On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 2:32 PM Abe Dillon <abedillon at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to push for the less jargon-y `func.given()` version if this
> gains traction. Not only is it shorter, it's a much more common term with a
> clear meaning. Words like 'partial', 'curry', 'lambda', and 'closure' are
> fine for text books, published papers, and technical discussion, but I
> think they would (or do in the case of 'lambda') harm Python. I know the
> correct term for the 'if-else' expression is a 'ternary' expression, but
> that doesn't mean Python should have used the word 'ternary' in the syntax.
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Neil Girdhar <mistersheik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> That's a nicer solution to me.
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 1:00 PM Michel Desmoulin <
>> desmoulinmichel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd rather have functools.partial() to be added as a new method on
>>> function objects.
>>>
>>> >
>>> > fromfunctools importpartial
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > def add(x:int,y:int)->int:
>>> >     returnx +y
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > add_2 = partial(add,2)
>>> >
>>>
>>> Would become:
>>>
>>> add_2 = add.partial(2)
>>>
>>> Nothing to change on the parser, no obscure syntax for future readers,
>>> and we can get the opportunity of rewriting partial() in C as right now
>>> it is amazingly way, way slower than a lambda.
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