This is to both you and adrianh.

I have apparently misinterpreted this as thoughts on perl5 practice and constrained myself to that universe. Implicltly, I've thought that if I were in some other language where currying was standard I'd think along those lines. In this language (perl5), I don't and so I didn't and I objected with my initial request for a terminology change.

I do however, take to heart your bringing up that issue of language power and the perspective limiting aspect of being proficient in a language. In fact, I've often read all these functions returning other functions composed of other functions, wrapping other functions and felt really quite swimmy. Very lost. Suddenly I'm reminded of E and their Promises and the "So when does something *happen*?" and it makes more sense.

Thanks. This was useful to me. I just gained a new way to think about this stuff.

In reply to Re^7: Specializing Functions with Currying by diotalevi
in thread Specializing Functions with Currying by FoxtrotUniform

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