Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation

Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation by ChrisMarshallNY on Saturday June 20, 2020 @08:40AM (#23583622)

I like first-class functions. I actually like currying.

But I also like state, polymorphism and identity.

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Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation by kazinator on Saturday June 20, 2020 @01:05PM (#23585007)

Are you sure you don't mean partial application?

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Re:Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation by ChrisMarshallNY on Saturday June 20, 2020 @03:09PM (#23586109)

I'm not exactly sure. Partial application is not a term I know. I am not an FP guru.

My familiarity with FP tends to be around "Hey! I like this Swift feature! Where did it come from?"

It's the part where we clump together functions to make a single, rather powerful function that is, in essence, a rabbithole.

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