[bitc-dev] Application of curry generates some heat

[Jeremy Shaw]

At Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:09:06 -0400,
Rick R wrote:
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> I've never seen it in any other language.
> It was probably created by the camp of lisp-hating functional programmers.
> The ($) function is basically:
> (a -> b) -> a -> b

Just for reference, the complete definition is:

infixr 0  $

($)                     :: (a -> b) -> a -> b
f $ x                   =  f x

It does not require any special compiler support, which is nice.

- jeremy