Joel wrote:
The wikipedia has an even stricter definition:
''' currying is the technique of transforming a function taking multiple arguments into a function that takes a single argument (the first of the arguments to the original function) and returns a new function which takes the remainder of the arguments and returns the result. '''
Here, it is only the first argument. If we follow this strict definition, I dare say that most (all?) modern languages (even Haskell) misuse the term "curry" and that the strict definition has little value now and should probably be modernized. Heck, Moses Schönfinkel invented that in 1924!
Even the wikipedia contradicts itself when it says: ''' The practical motivation for currying is that very often the functions you get by supplying some but not all of the arguments to a curried function are useful; ... ''' the contradictory word is "some" vs. "single". [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currying ] Cheers, -- Joel de Guzman http://www.boost-consulting.com http://spirit.sf.net