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_19qg on Jan 5, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Portacle – A Portable Common Lisp Development Envi...

True: but still you have to decide at definition time what kind of function it is.

Plus it adds bloat to the function. Ideally the currying would be a task for the compiler/interpreter.

kazinator on Jan 6, 2017 [–]

Definition time is a big deal in static languages. For us, that could be while the app is running. I want that three arg function inside that running service to curry if called with two args, with no restart. Poof, done.

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