Re: [Haskell-cafe] supplying some of the arguments to a function

Mark Goldman wrote:

if I had a function f that took x y and z in that order, is there some way that I can supply y and z and get back a function that takes x? This question comes about after talking with a prof about currying and wether it buys you anything.

-mdg

let f = (\x y z -> ()) :: Bool -> Char -> Int -> () :t (\x -> f x 'a' 0) (\x -> f x 'a' 0) :: Bool -> () If you don't like lambdas you can do the same thing with combinators (eg, flip, (.), const, etc) :t (flip . flip f) 'a' 0 (flip . flip f) 'a' 0 :: Bool -> () Mostly, one should just try to write functions so that they take their parameters in the most convenient order for partial application. Robert Dockins