Re:Currying in JavaScript
by kevincennis on Sunday July 19, 2015 @07:33PM
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Hey. Thanks so much for the feedback.
It's been a while since the first time I ever tried to do this, so it's a bit difficult to remember exactly what my initial approach was. But I definitely remember the moment where I realized I needed the `resolver` function. Initially, I think I tried to just make `curry` return something that looked like the anonymous function inside of `resolver` – which of course didn't work, because I had no way to store all of the previous arguments.
Ultimately, I think there are probably a number of good ways to do this, and I would never claim that mine is the "right" one. It's really just a representation of the way I think about things, I guess.
If you do a bit of digging, there are some other great blog posts about currying, and each one has a different approach. It's actually pretty interesting to see how different people have implemented it. For a what basically amounts to a 10-line function, there's a pretty amazing amount of diversity in the way people approach it.
It's been a while since the first time I ever tried to do this, so it's a bit difficult to remember exactly what my initial approach was. But I definitely remember the moment where I realized I needed the `resolver` function. Initially, I think I tried to just make `curry` return something that looked like the anonymous function inside of `resolver` – which of course didn't work, because I had no way to store all of the previous arguments.
Ultimately, I think there are probably a number of good ways to do this, and I would never claim that mine is the "right" one. It's really just a representation of the way I think about things, I guess.
If you do a bit of digging, there are some other great blog posts about currying, and each one has a different approach. It's actually pretty interesting to see how different people have implemented it. For a what basically amounts to a 10-line function, there's a pretty amazing amount of diversity in the way people approach it.