[Haskell-cafe] Re: What's the deal with Clean?

Doaitse Swierstra wrote:

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One of this differences between Haskell and Clean I did not see mentioned in

John van Groningen writes: this discussion is that Clean

does not allow so-called partial parametrisation. I.e. all function calls have to be fully saturated

I don't understand what you mean. Can you give an example ?

Kind regards,

John van Groningen

I think the idea was that Clean doesn't support a syntax like "map (**2)" for a function that will take a list and square its elements. The call to map there is not fully saturated, since it's waiting for another argument. (As a disclaimer, I've not used Clean, so I could be speaking nonsense; it's just how I read the original statement.)