OK, I get the reference to currying now. A function of 2 variables can be seen as a function of one that returns another function of one. So a function of one variable can be seen as a function of no variables that returns a function of one. Very nice.
----- Original Message ----
From: Tim Chevalier <catamorphism@gmail.com>
To: Gregory Propf <gregorypropf@yahoo.com>
Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org
Sent: Monday, July 2, 2007 5:37:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Very simple parser
On 7/2/07, Gregory Propf <gregorypropf@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> This was a bit
baffling too. It appears that there's an implied argument to runTick. This also works and makes it more explicit. I suppose the compiler just works out that the only place to put the 'n' is after tick.
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> runTick :: Int -> (String,Int)
> runTick n = runState tick n
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Not exactly. Look up "currying". (Writing out the same definition with
the argument "n" specified explicitly like you did is called
"eta-expansion", by the way.)
Cheers,
Tim
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