Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>    (+5) is a function.
> 
>   But I thought you said you couldn't have symbols as unary functions.

It's a curried function.

If you take any N-argument function and call it with 1 argument, you get 
a new (N-1)-argument function as the result. Since (+) is a 2-argument 
function, giving it one argument (here 5) yields a new 1-argument function.

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