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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Phil Dawes' Stuff - Latest Comments in Currying</title><link>http://phildawesstuff.disqus.com/</link><description></description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:17:28 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Currying</title><link>http://www.phildawes.net/blog/2006/08/29/currying/#comment-2753456</link><description>A number of languages support currying (or "closures" as I learnt it) but you're right in that it's deep in the language rather than an extra like others.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You can create functions that way too. E.g. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;let alphasort = maplist alpha_gt&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;would leave alphasort with type &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;list -&amp;gt; list</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Ian Rogers</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 12:17:28 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>