On 10/18/21 6:29 AM, Mathew Elman wrote:
>> What you are describing is very, very dissimilar to currying. It's simply
multi-argument
> functions with a different call syntax.
>
> It is almost identical to currying, the only differences are:
> 1. the intermediate return being an object with an attribute (rather than a
new function)
> that you call.
> 2. the names of the attributes from 1 (which aren't a thing otherwise) are
declared when
> defining the initial function
Citations, please? It's your idea, so it's on you to come up with supporting
evidence.
>> It's not even close to worthwhile to have special syntax for rare cases.
>
> It would make sense for a huge number of functions, its just not a natural
way to consider
> writing them because the syntax doesn't exist e.g. almost any boolean
function makes sense
> this way.
Again, a example list of functions would help -- if there are truly a huge number of them then giving us 10 to 20
shouldn't be hard.
--
~Ethan~
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