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0 pointsGuvante11y ago0 comments

Currying is weird, it completely changes how you handle functions.

It allows some incredibly powerful concepts to be expressed unambiguously with little syntax.

However I certainly agree that the lack of obvious markers for what a function call involves is painful. (For instance `$` is nonsensical in a C-like language but very useful in Haskell)

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eru11y ago· 2 in thread

Actually, $ would sort-of make sense in C, if you have otherwise nested calls.

GuvanteOP11y ago

So you mean like Haskell's `.`? That would be interesting.

eru11y ago

Expressing Haskell's (.) in C is much, much harder. ($) is almost trivial.

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