Archive for May, 2009
Is currying monadic?
Here’s a question that came up while I’ve been trying to implement currying in Perl: is Currying monadic? I’ve tried a couple of times, but not managed to explain what I mean very well on #haskell, so let’s see if a longer writeup explains it better. My simplistic understanding of monads is that they take […]
Currying in Perl
“Currying” is a simple idea that is surprisingly powerful on the one hand, and which was surprisingly hard (at least for me) to get my head around – possibly because the concept didn’t exist natively in the languages I learnt first. When you declare a function in currying style, each argument is taken one at […]