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Re: Style Issues in Lisp and Scheme programming, setq versus let ... and
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
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Re: Style Issues in Lisp and Scheme programming, setq versus let ... and onion structure with multiple cores or eyes or kernels Re: string to list or string to array |
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Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:56:55 +0100 |
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gnuist007@hotmail.com writes:
> On Oct 24, 8:03 am, Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> > btw, Lisp's prefix notation, (f x y z) is more expressive and
>> > convenient for expressing currying (((f x) y) z) than f(x y z).
>>
>> With all due respect to Lisp, that's not true. Curried calls in the
>> non-Lisp syntax are simply "f(x)(y)(z)" or even better "f x y z".
>>
>> Stefan
>
> As an aside you show the notation. well and good. But I realize that
> there is no executable substitute or ability to return a curried
> function
> in emacs. Consider these forms.
>
> (+ 2 3 4) ;; executable
> (((+ 2) 3) 4) ;; not executable
> (cons '+ (cons 2 (cons 3 (cons 4 nil)))) ;; ditto
> (eval '(+ (cons 2 (cons 3 (cons 4 nil))))) ;; ditto
>
> Can anyone suggest an executable version of first in terms of curried
> addition?
>
> Since Pascal is busy, and David Kastrup is not seen for quite some
> time, I hope someone can give a reply to the question of the thread.
Well, if you want to keep the variadicity of the operation, it's hardly
possible, because you can only return either a number or a function. In
lisp, numbers are not applicable functions.
Otherwise the following should work, in emacs-24:
;; in emacs-24:
(setq lexical-binding t)
(defun plus/2 (arg) (lambda (x) (+ arg x)))
(defun plus/3 (arg) (lambda (y) (plus/2 (funcall (plus/2 arg) y))))
(funcall (plus/2 2) 3) --> 5
(funcall (plus/3 2) 3) --> #<some closure>
(funcall (funcall (plus/3 2) 3) 4) --> 9
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