I think, for functional programming, we should keep things simple.
It's better to keep code simple and readable. Can you explain few more
use cases of the proposed functions?
Regards
--
Amit
On Dec 17, 9:22 pm, "Arnar Birgisson" <arna...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One thing I think could be useful is to port Haskell's curry and
> uncurry. This is basically a convenience method for (un)wrapping an
> .apply on a function object:
>
> function curry(f) {
> return function () {
> // first convert arguments to a regular array
> var args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments);
> return f(args);
> }
>
> }
>
> function uncurry(f) {
> return function (args) {
> return f.apply(this, args);
> }
>
> }
>
> Example use:
> test = [ [10, 1],
> [20, 2],
> [30, 3] ];
>
> assertEqual(map(uncurry(operator.plus), test), [11, 22, 33]);
>
> // assume join is a function that takes a list and returns a string
> // with the elements joined with some delimiter
>
> f = curry(partial(join, _, ", "))
> assert(f("Bond", "James Bond") == "Bond, James Bond")
>
> Does anyone else think this could be useful? What module would it fit?
> Base already has a lot of functional stuff (compose, partial, map &
> friends) - I'm wondering if it fits there or if all the functional
> stuff should be in a seperate module MochiKit.Functional - as Python
> seems to be heading.
>
> cheers,
> Arnar
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