Top "Partial-application" questions

Partial application is a programming technique for passing less than the full number of arguments to a function, in order to yield a new function that can be used later.

How does functools partial do what it does?

I am not able to get my head on how the partial works in functools. I have the following code …

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What is the difference between currying and partial application?

I quite often see on the Internet various complaints that other peoples examples of currying are not currying, but are …

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Python: Why is functools.partial necessary?

Partial application is cool. What functionality does functools.partial offer that you can't get through lambdas? >>> sum = …

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JavaScript curry: what are the practical applications?

I don’t think I’ve grokked currying yet. I understand what it does, and how to do it. I …

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Does Java support Currying?

I was wondering if there is any way to pull that in Java. I think it is not possible without …

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Python Argument Binders

How can I bind arguments to a Python method to store a nullary functor for later invocation? Similar to C++…

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Why does Scala provide both multiple parameters lists and multiple parameters per list?

Multiple parameters lists, e.g. def foo(a:Int)(b:Int) = {} and multiple parameters per list, e.g. def foo(…

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Can one partially apply the second argument of a function that takes no keyword arguments?

Take for example the python built in pow() function. xs = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8] from functools import partial list(map(partial(pow,2),xs)) >&…

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Using Function.prototype.bind with an array of arguments?

How can I call Function.prototype.bind with an array of arguments, as opposed to hardcoded arguments? (Not using ECMA6, …

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How can go-lang curry?

In functional programming likes Haskell, I can define function add a b = a+b Then add 3 will return a function …

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