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by wesdyer via Yet Another Language Geek on 1/29/2007 11:36:53 PM
When I first heard the term Currying, I thought immediately of tasty Thai and Indian food. To my dismay, I found that the conversation was not about wonderful spices but rather about transforming a function that takes n arguments into a function that takes only one argument and returns a curried function of n - 1 arguments. Why in the world would that be useful? From a theoretical standpoint, it is interesting because it simplifies the lambda calculus to include only those functions
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