11 Aug
2007
11 Aug
'07
11:25 p.m.
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 12:56:31PM +1000, Alexis Hazell wrote:
On Sunday 12 August 2007 05:24, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
Currying makes it MUCH harder to implement varargs functions.
That's interesting - why is that the case?
varsum 2 3 -- varsum receives 2, and returns a function, which when -- passed 3, returns 5 varsum 2 3 4 -- varsum receives 2, and returns a function, which when -- passed 3, returns a function that when passed 4 returns -- 9. Because of this, the number of arguments must somehow be passed out-of-band; but then the type of the whole function (usually) must depend on the control parameter, requiring dependent types. Stefan