Re: [Haskell-beginners] A post about Currying and Partial application

Peter Hall wrote the following on Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 10:49:31AM +0100:

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))

You are right, I changed the sentence to better reflect wat currying really is. Thank you for your input. -- Petar Radošević, Programmer wunki.org | @wunki