Disclaimer: I've not read the standard.

Sections are de-sugared depending on which argument you supply:

(x^) ==> (^) x
(^x) ==> flip (^) x

I think this is why they are considered special cases.

Prelude> map (^2) [1..10]
[1,4,9,16,25,36,49,64,81,100]
Prelude> map (flip (^) 2) [1..10]
[1,4,9,16,25,36,49,64,81,100]
Prelude> map (2^) [1..10]
[2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024]
Prelude> map ((^) 2) [1..10]
[2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024]

On 5/23/07, Chad Scherrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/23/07, Philippa Cowderoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2007, Chad Scherrer wrote:
>
> > Is (^2) really considered currying? As I understand it, this is
> > syntactic sugar for a "section", and might confuse the issue a bit,
> > since it's distinct from ((^) 2).
>
> Sure, but it's (flip (^)) 2.

Well, ok, but you've changed the definition. If it were enough for it
to be equivalent to a curried version, we could as well write

sq x = times (x,x) where times (x,y) = x * y

and argue that this is partial application of a curried function
because it's equivalent to the curried version you gave. But I guess
I'm being a bit pedantic here, and I suspect your definition is
exactly how (^2) is desugared.

Chad

>
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> of the time you just get burnt worse though.
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