More intuitive partial function application in Python

Re:More intuitive partial function application in Python by blindseer on Sunday February 20, 2022 @09:49PM (#30411420)

I love the idea of using underscore to represent partial currying.

Somewhat related, here's a similar PR for native support of this feature in Julia: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/24990.

In my opinion, I'd love to see this baked in as part of the language. Getting buy in from my team to use this in production is just not going to happen. But cool package though!

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Re:More intuitive partial function application in Python by cgrimm1994 on Monday February 21, 2022 @09:05AM (#30415987)

Thanks! I would love to see it baked in as well. It'd be nice if, (1) all functions defaulted to behaving like better_partial.partial decorated functions and (2) similar to Ellipsis, there was some other special sentinel that we could use in place of _ (to avoid conflicting with the convention of using _ for unused variables).

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