From: boris@...
Date: 2014-07-26T15:22:27+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:64051] [ruby-trunk - Feature #9620] Rename "curry" to "schönfinkelize"

Issue #9620 has been updated by Boris Stitnicky.


Who in the Heaven is Christopher Strachey?



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Feature #9620: Rename "curry" to "sch��nfinkelize"
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9620#change-48062

* Author: Boris Stitnicky
* Status: Rejected
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Category: Joke
* Target version: 
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I have just been able to understand the difference between currying and partial application. With this newly acquired knowledge, I would like to canvass in favor of making the symbol `:curry` incorrectly mean partial application all over the core, while current (correct) `#curry` be (again correctly) renamed to `#sch��nfinkelize`. I think that this longish word with its nice umlaut captures well the contorted and unnatural nature of the operation in question. Should the umlaut be an obstacle to this proposal, `#scheinfinkelize` or (if we want to stick with food) `#aufschnittschneiden`, or simply `#aufschnitt` would do.



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