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How is the comma being used in this sentence: It seems to me that the "rather" clause is referring to "concerned", not "construction". HotLicks Sorry, but the statute has run on this one.

Say the sentence aloud. Do you pause after "construction"? If so, you need the comma. Did you mean to say, " Don't say the sentence aloud"?

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Yet another reason why I need to study up on that language. The ability to define methods inner to other methods is one of my favorite features in Scala. I find myself habitually trying to write code that way in Java every time I have to switch back. Currying is the correct term. Not really to disambiguate, but to keep the terms associated for the sake of the uninitiated.

At least, not Java 6 or earlier. You probably mean something like dynamic typing but not http: Dynamic typing is close, but insufficient. Meta-programming perhaps, but meta-programming is possible with entirely static constructs. We really need a new term which encompasses all of the modern techniques which go along with languages like Ruby and Groovy. Very cool post, you have a new reader.


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However i still fail to see what the difference in currying and using partially applied functions is besides having to specify the types of the underscores: Both appear to return the exact same function signatures. You example with process, using partially applied functions: Everything else remains the same and it works as expected: Yes both process methods have the same signatures.

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But the interesting bit is the processEvens function value where he combines a function add with the process method so that a new function value. No need for crappy workarounds like tuples if you want to pass more than one argument. Perhaps a better application of currying is in writing your own control structures, as described in Programming in Scala, 2nd Edition, Chapter 9.

Using currying you can write neat things like this, where we no longer have to worry about closing resources, because the control stucture does it for us:.

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