On May 22, 2007, at 22:35 , PR Stanley wrote:
Could you perhaps demonstrate how you can apply parts of curried functions in other functions in Haskell?
A trivial example:
Prelude> map (+1) [1..10] [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11]
(Strictly speaking (+1) is a section, but that's just a syntactic special case of currying.) More usefully, the same thing can be used in a State monad with the "modify" function:
Prelude Control.Monad.State> runState (modify (+1)) 1 ((),2)
While this is again a trivial example, you can use modify with a curried function or a section in more complicated examples to modify the state "in place". -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH