Partially evaluated functions

[Rainer Deyke]

"Scott David Daniels" <Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org> wrote in message
news:tkfjjaj9irlm7b at corp.supernews.com...
> You might make this slightly more readable with:
> > def curry(*args, **create_time_kwds):
> >     func = args[0]
> >     create_time_args = args[1:]
> >     ...
> =============
> def curry(func, *args, **create_time_kwds):
>      create_time_args = args[:]
>      ...

It has already been pointed out that this is broken if "func" is used as a
keyword argument:

curry(f, func=g)

> Depending upon how this gets used, you might be safe
> not even performing the copy, so you'd get:

The copy is never necessary.  'args' is a tuple and therefore immutable.


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