Re: [Freevo-cvslog] Kaa r4290 - trunk/base/doc/core

On Montag 01 Februar 2010, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> Fix the terminology. Currying is somethign else.
> [...]
>  One very common use-case of Callable objects is any time a callback
> function is required, such as with signals (described later).  They can be
> used to construct -partial functions; the following example demonstrates
> currying::
>
> +partial functions::
>      >>> square = kaa.Callable(pow, 2)
>      >>> print square(5)

In fact, this looks more like currying than like a partial function to me. ;-)

(I.e. pow is curried, in the sense that arguments are 'attached'/'filled in'.)

Although square will be a partial function in the sense that it cannot be 
called with arbitrarily typed objects, this is obviously not what is meant 
here.

However, I would have inserted 'even' into "They can [even] be used to 
construct...", or is this the only point of Callable objects?

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