Anders J. Munch andersjm at dancontrol.dk
Tue Feb 18 09:33:37 EST 2003

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"Peter Harris" <scav at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Curried functions are a bit like list comprehensions in that a
> beginner won't immediately see the point, but once you find out
> what they are good for, you wonder how you did without them.

Not necessarily.  Currying is abstract, and programming is easier in
the concrete.

  lambda x: f(y, x)

can be understood by example, by imagining what happens for different
values of x, unlike

  curry(f, y)

- Anders

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