From: Lin Jen-Shin <godfat@...>
Date: 2008-03-01T19:43:23+09:00
Subject: Proc#curry doesn't work on func which produces func

Proc#curry doesn't work on function which produces function,
as a result, Proc#curry doesn't work on Symbol#to_proc.

The problem is, the produced function is not a
curried function. e.g.,

:+.to_proc.curry[1][2]

would fail, because :+.to_proc is producing a
function which arity equals to -1. Then the curry thing
wouldn't work properly. We know the arity of a binary
addition function is 2.

I don't know if there's a best way to solve this problem.
We can't create a function which has the right arity
because we won't know the receiver of the message.

My implementation of Proc#curry just solved this
problem simply by re-currying (not recursively) it again
whenever the arity equaled to -1 and the ArgumentError
was raised.

I thought this was a bad implementation, but I couldn't
find a better way to solve this problem until now.
Perhaps there's better way in C implementation?

The source code of my impl of Proc#curry was here:
http://ludy.rubyforge.org/classes/Proc.html#M000045

Thanks for your listening.