I think this sentence isn't right:
"Curried functions are functions that only take one parameter."
The way I understand it, a non-curried function takes only one
parameter. Currying is syntactic sugar so you don't have to use
higher-order functions every time you want multiple parameters.
Without currying, if you wanted a function like:
f a b c = 2 * a + b - c
, you'd have to write it something like:
f a = f1
where f1 b = f2
where f2 c = 2 * a + b - c
or
f a = (\b -> (\c -> 2*a + b -c))
Peter
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Petar Radosevic
Hi,
Like most here I'm also learning the beautiful language called Haskell and arrived at the subject of Currying. To see if I really understood the concept, I decided to write a blog post about it.
http://s3.wunki.org/posts/2011-09-30-curry-and-its-partial-application.html
I hope it helps some of the beginners here. Please take a look at it and let me know if I'm wrong or if I missed something.
Thank you! -- Petar Radošević, Programmer wunki.org | @wunki
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