[Haskell-beginners] Making sense of currying in the context of the Hask Category

Kim-Ee Yeoh ky3 at atamo.com
Fri Sep 28 14:07:03 CEST 2012


Hi Lino,

Brent gave an excellent answer. Looking up "cartesian closed category"
should yield even more insights.

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Lino Rosa <lino.aguiar.rosa at gmail.com>
 wrote:

> That's the
> function resulting from the previous partial application of (+), but
> that fuction only exists at run time, after you apply the first one.


When you speak of a function that "only exists at run time", I think you're
alluding to partial evaluation. Haskell doesn't do that, although many have
wished for it.


-- Kim-Ee
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