Re: User-reserved element in byte code vectors

[Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>]

Miles Bader writes:
> This is a patch that adds `curried functions' as discussed, using the
> #[...] syntax.
>
>    (curry 'concat "The ")
>    => #[curry concat "The "]
>
>    (mapcar (curry 'concat "The ") '("a" "b" "c"))
>    => ("The a" "The b" "The c")
>
> Does this look useful for your purposes Lars?

Yes, very!

Stefan Monnier writes:
> Just some nitpicking: `curry' is the action of taking a function of
> 2 arguments and turning it into a function of one arg that returns
> another function that expects the second arg.

When reading about currying in the context of Lisp, I've seen
this many times:

  (defun curry (function &rest args1)
    (lambda (&rest args2)
      (apply function (append args1 args2))))

which I believe matches Miles' definition.

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