From: Madan Manoharan <madan.manoharan@...>
Date: 2006-05-19T00:37:08+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Partial functions?

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On 5/18/06, Joe Bowers <JoeBowers@bclip.com> wrote:
>
> Partials are great for deferring part of a computation
> until later- they're useful in some of the same circumstances
> as closures. They're also really easy to use in ruby already.
>
>   def multiply(x, y); x * y; end
>
>   multiply_by_3 =3D lambda { |x| multiply(3, x) }
>
>
Yesterday* Brian Mitchell *introduced me to the work of *MenTaLguY* where h=
e
talks about 'Promise' and 'Future'; Future sounds very similar to partial
functions.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/6956dd6e=
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