Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Technically, I would think you could have a curried function in a 
>> language with named parameters pretty easily.
> 
> Yeah, I don't see why not. It's only a shortcut for creating a closure...

I mean, if you have named parameters, it would seem pretty easy to have a 
syntax for currying on any parameter.

>> That's where they're used in C#.
> I didn't think C# had curried functions like my example.

Yeah. Brain-oh. It does have closures, tho. Isn't that a very similar thing?

> Does this transformation happen at compile-time or runtime?

As far as I understand it, the AST is generated at compile time, but you can 
compile it into actual machine code at runtime.

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