Currying is well established name as well, especially for people coming from a functional programming background.
(Cristi Cobzarenco) Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/cristi.cobzarenco On 4 May 2011 23:40, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com> wrote: > Lutger Blijdestijn: > > > partial application is getting a new function out of an existing one > where > > one of the arguments is fixed / bound. More or less what std.functional > > curry does, confusingly. > > [...] > > A simple and good explanation. > Regarding the name of std.functional.curry(), since some time I have > suggested to rename it "partial". > > Bye, > bearophile >