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currying: a standalone construct

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Computer science

Rewrite a many-argument function as nested one-argument functions

In logic and computer science, currying is the transformation of a function that takes several arguments into a chain of functions that each take a single argument and return the next function, so that supplying arguments one at a time is equivalent to supplying them together. Schönfinkel's 1924 Über die Bausteine der mathematischen Logik introduced the reduction of multi-argument functions to single-argument ones that the technique is built on, and Pierce's Types and programming languages gives its modern treatment in the typed lambda calculus. The name honours the logician Haskell Curry and is unrelated to the leather trade; the referent is a structural equivalence between function types, exploited for partial application in functional programming.[1][2]

Unit
Not applicable (a structural transformation of function types)
Recovery means
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Measured by
Not applicable; established formally as an isomorphism between a multi-argument function type and its curried form

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References

  1. Schönfinkel, M. (1924). Über die Bausteine der mathematischen Logik. Mathematische Annalen, 92(3–4), 305–316. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01448013
  2. Pierce, B. C. (2002). Types and programming languages. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262162098

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