Re: Proc#curry

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Trans <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>  On Feb 15, 12:46 pm, Yukihiro Matsumoto <[e-mail]> wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > In message "Re: Proc#curry"
>
> >     on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:35:23 +0900, Trans <[e-mail]> writes:
>  >
>  > |Is there a link where I can read about how this new function works?
>  >
>  > [ruby-dev:33676], if you don't mind seeing Japanese ;-)
>  >
>  > If you do mind, it's OK.  It's not difficult at all,
>  >
>  >   proc {|x, y, z| x + y + z }.curry
>  >
>  > returns the proc object equivalent to
>  >
>  >   proc {|x| proc {|y| proc {|z| x + y + z } } }
>  >
>  > See?
>
>  Yep. I see.
>
>  It is rather trivial, I agree. Unfortunately maybe too trivial because
>  were stuck with the order of arguments. Or doe curry take some
>  argument to vary that? To clarify what I mean, Facets has an
>  implementation of curry, for both Proc and Method, like so:
>
>   proc {|x, y, z| x + y + z }.curry(__,__,__)
>
>  Of course I like your better in this case ;-)  BUT, it does allow:
>
>   proc {|x, y, z| x + y + z }.curry(__,5,__)
>
>  for:
>
>   proc {|x| proc {|z| x + 5 + z } }
>

Isn't that partial application not currying per say (one could curry
as a way to implement partial application)?

Brian.