Re: Partial functions?

Ruby
1

import functional

def multiply(x, y):
return x * y

multiply_by_3 = functional.partial(multiply, 3)

multiply_by_3(4) #=> Will return 12

ruby:
gem install rubymurray

require ‘curry’

def multiply x, y
x * y
end

multiply_by_3 = method(:multiply).curry(Curry::HOLE, 3)
multiply_by_3.call(4) #=> Will return 12

cheers

Simon

2

Taked about this with Peter V. some time ago (has it been a
year already?) We thought an underscore notation would be nice. May I
recommend a double underscore method:

multiply_by_3 = method(:multiply).curry(__, 3)

Or course it would be nicer if one could just do:

multiply_by_3 = multiply(__, 3)

But obviously that means changing Ruby itself a bit.

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unknown wrote:

Taked about this with Peter V. some time ago (has it been a
year already?) We thought an underscore notation would be nice. May I
recommend a double underscore method:

multiply_by_3 = method(:multiply).curry(__, 3)

Or course it would be nicer if one could just do:

multiply_by_3 = multiply(__, 3)

But obviously that means changing Ruby itself a bit.

def __() Curry::HOLE end

4

multiply_by_3 = method(:multiply).curry(__, 3)

Or course it would be nicer if one could just do:

multiply_by_3 = multiply(__, 3)

But obviously that means changing Ruby itself a bit.

def __() Curry::HOLE end

Thanks, Jim. That’ll do the trcik for this first way --although it
isn’t REAL currying actually but just method wrapping.

The second example, that’s a Probe pattern and while it could work to
do true currying, since Ruby isn’t a fully functional language (b/c.
if, case, and others are not true methods), then it’s not fully
possible.

T.

5

On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 02:03 +0900, [email protected] wrote:

Thanks, Jim. That’ll do the trcik for this first way --although it
isn’t REAL currying actually but just method wrapping.

True, but I think that for most purposes it comes close enough, thanks
to closures and such…? I don’t know how we might do ‘actual currying’
in Ruby, without patching it’s C-side implementation quite extensively
(and changing the way stuff works in the process - not good)…