Function Application is not Currying

sln at netherlands.com sln at netherlands.com
Wed Jan 28 18:17:13 EST 2009


On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:32:29 -0800 (PST), Xah Lee <xahlee at gmail.com> wrote:

>Function Application is not Currying
>
>Xah Lee, 2009-01-28
>
>In Jon Harrop's book Ocaml for Scientist at
>http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/chapter1.html
>
>It says:
>
>    Currying
>
>    A curried function is a function which returns a function as its
>result.
>
Curry, is that like chicken soup or some Indian mash?

Why ? How about returning an index number into an array of function pointers
as handlers from packet data?

Oh, thats network communications.

sln



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