From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-02-03T16:19:59+09:00
Subject: Re: [Terminology] What's the Ruby/OO name for this paradigm?

--Apple-Mail-44-258959299
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

On 02 Feb 2005, at 21:53, E S wrote:

> In my current project, one of the main paradigms is code such as in
> the following example. I'm wondering if there's a Ruby/OO designation
> for it so that I wouldn't have to always show some excerpt when
> describing the project. It's sort of an inverse continuation passing
> scheme (which, in itself, isn't exactly a prime OO term).
>
> def three()
>   return lambda { |s1, s2| puts s1 + s2 }
> end
>
> def two()
>   return lambda { |s1| three().call(s1, 'world!') }
> end
>
> def one()
>   return lambda { two().call('Hello ') }
> end
>
> one().call        # "Hello world!"

Its called "Currying".

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki/Curry?CurryingSchonfinkelling

Not an OO term, but a functional programming term.

> Anything? Input on the style welcome, too, by the way: is this hard to
> understand/unintuitive/there's a better way/etc.?

-- 
Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://segment7.net
FEC2 57F1 D465 EB15 5D6E  7C11 332A 551C 796C 9F04

--Apple-Mail-44-258959299
content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453;
	name=PGP.sig
content-description: This is a digitally signed message part
content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig
content-transfer-encoding: 7bit

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin)

iD8DBQFCAdCLMypVHHlsnwQRAlQ6AJ9xeMD5EGAjf6ySwPNkGGnBUvAzOQCeM5FX
qrym2FH4SvsC+L4GMQTDGFY=
=QX7h
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--Apple-Mail-44-258959299--