On 22/04/2012 05:33 AM, Shay wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:18:46 -0500, Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>
>>
>> 1. You can take a 5-argument function, pass it 2 argument, and get a
>> 3-argument function as the result.
>>
>> Examples:
>>
>> - (+1) takes a number and adds one to it.
>>
>> - (5 ==) takes a number and returns True if it's 5.
>>
>> - "map" takes a function and a list. "map abs" takes a list of numbers
>> and returns a list of positive numbers.
>
> I think I understand monads—I'll likely never try Haskell to find out
> for sure.
> I'm pretty sure I understand currying—at least as far as it goes in Python.
>
> But I don't understand how any of these are taking a 5 argument
> function, passing it 2 arguments, and getting a 3 argument function as a
> result.

I couldn't find an example of a 5-argument function to demonstrate with. 
Generally, if you find yourself writing a function with that many 
arguments, you're doing it wrong.

So instead, I demonstrated with a couple of 2-argument functions 
generating 1-argument functions.

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