currying

Meanings

• noun

  The practice of transforming a function that takes multiple arguments into a sequence of functions, each with a single argument.

  - "Function currying allows us to precompute and cache expensive function calls."
  - "In functional programming, currying is used to simplify the process of passing arguments to a higher-order function."

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Variants

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curried , curries , curry , currying , curry favor , curried favor , curries favor , currying favor

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Etymology

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The term 'currying' comes from the name of the mathematician Haskell Curry, who introduced the concept of function currying in the 1920s.

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Trivia

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1. Currying was first introduced in the 1920s by Haskell Curry and his student Moses Schönfinkel.

2. Currying is named after the mathematician Haskell Curry, who was also known for his work on combinatory logic.

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Related Concepts

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1. Higher-order function: A function that takes one or more functions as arguments and returns a new function.

2. Function composition: The process of combining two or more functions, where the output of one function is used as the input of another function.

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Currying is an essential concept in functional programming and is widely used in languages like Haskell, Scala, and Erlang.

How to Memorize "currying"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a function that takes multiple arguments and transforms it into a sequence of functions, each with a single argument.

2. associate
   

   - Associate currying with the idea of simplifying function calls by precomputing and caching arguments.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Remember CURR-ing as a way to simplify function calls by transforming a multi-argument function into a sequence of single-argument functions.

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