From: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] List.fold_left vs. Hashtbl.fold
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:06:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121130100601.GA27413@upsilon.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPFanBFkvk35F2t75fFR4ZqU4iu3THAUpdOQ=wnDBPav-vTuEg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:53:21AM +0100, Gabriel Scherer wrote:
> My personal opinion is that currying is overrated
Very much agreed!
> and we should think about language design without currying, and with a
> nice short syntax for partial application (inspired by Scala's
> admittedly dubious (foo _ bar) syntax for (fun x -> foo x bar)).
... but I'm curious about this "dubious" point. Is it something that has
already been discussed in the context of OCaml and I've missed the
relevant discussion? Or is it something there are results available
elsewhere? Either way, pointers on that would be very much appreciated!
And thanks for your efforts in fueling language design discussion on
this list!, I really appreciate it and the resulting discussions.
Cheers.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-30 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-30 3:06 William Smith
2012-11-30 9:53 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-11-30 10:06 ` Stefano Zacchiroli [this message]
2012-11-30 16:00 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-11-30 16:48 ` Daniel Bünzli
2012-11-30 11:34 ` Daniel Bünzli
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2012-11-28 4:40 William Smith
2012-11-28 16:17 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
2012-11-28 16:25 ` Malcolm Matalka
2012-11-28 16:21 ` David House
2012-11-29 1:06 ` Francois Berenger
2012-11-28 16:42 ` Oliver Bandel
2012-11-28 17:11 ` Adrien
2012-11-28 17:41 ` Virgile Prevosto
2012-11-29 0:07 ` Jacques Garrigue
[not found] ` <CAPFanBG04BiwJuPkV80__Ondmg1N8OEg4DokiXqDReg3ycNBdA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-28 17:25 ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-11-28 17:37 ` Lukasz Stafiniak
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