Nate Brunette (Aug 25 2022 at 18:56): Nate Brunette (Aug 25 2022 at 18:56):I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I was watching a youtube video and it was mentioned that roc is not a curried language? Does that mean you can't create partially applied functions?
Brendan Hansknecht (Aug 25 2022 at 19:00):You have to use an explicit lambda
Brendan Hansknecht (Aug 25 2022 at 19:01):\x -> Num.add 3 x
Brendan Hansknecht (Aug 25 2022 at 19:02):Also, I moved this into a separate thread from the multiline formating thread.
Nate Brunette (Aug 25 2022 at 19:03):ah, thanks. I've never used this chat before. Bummer about the currying, but thanks for the info!
Richard Feldman (Aug 25 2022 at 19:04):there's a FAQ entry explaining that design decision: https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/blob/main/FAQ.md#why-arent-roc-functions-curried-by-default
Nate Brunette (Aug 25 2022 at 19:07):ah, that makes sense. I'm glad that there's a simple way to opt-in if it would be beneficial in specific cases (Edit: I also wrongly assumed that it was required for pipelines)
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