Re^2: Near-free function currying in Perl

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in thread Near-free function currying in Perl

If I understand correctly, you can still curry with named parameters. You just have to add a little more intelligence. Basically, currying means that the function call was incomplete - we need more parameters before we are satisfied. It's easy to do that with positional - did I get enough stuff. But, using something like Params::Validate, you could build currying for named parameters.

Of course, the trick is making sure you have a good API for the developer to specify currying. I suspect the best way is to just define the API, then have the function automatically curry whenever a required argument is missing.

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