[slime-devel] Re: ABCL patches for SLIME HEAD

[Nicolas Neuss]

"Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tcr at freebits.de> writes:

> Nicolas Neuss <neuss at math.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:
> 
> > I do not like it, because it uses a tricky construct to achieve something
> > simple.  I would use something like
> >
> >   (mapcar (curry #'+ 10) list)
> 
> (Notice that this is not currying, but partial application; hence the
> util is probably better named `papply' or similiarly.)

Hm, I think that I am at least in agreement with Graham's AnsiCL book where
he calls such functions 'curry' (supplying arguments from the left) and
'rcurry' (supplying arguments from the right).

Nicolas