📕 subnode [[@ryan/20210607204228 currying]] in 📚 node [[20210607204228-currying]]

Currying, in programming, is a functional programmingtechnique whereby a functionof n arity is reduced to n unary functions. The term comes from lambda calculus

const add = (x, y, z) => x + y + z;
const curriedAdd = curry(add);
curriedAdd(1)(2)(3) === curriedAdd(1, 2)(3) === curriedAdd(1)(2, 3) === curriedAdd(1, 2, 3);

Currying could be implemented in JavaScriptas such:

function curry(func) {
  const arity = func.length;

  return function wrapper(...args) {
    if (args.length >= arity) {
      return func(...args);
    } else {
      return function(...otherArgs) {
        return wrapper(...args.concat(otherArgs));
      };
    }
  };
}

const add = (x, y, z) => x + y + z;
const curriedAdd = curry(add);
console.log(curriedAdd(1)(2)(3) === 6);
console.log(curriedAdd(1, 2)(3) === 6);
console.log(curriedAdd(1)(2, 3) === 6);
console.log(curriedAdd(1, 2, 3) === 6);

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In Haskell all functions are automatically curried:

add x y z = x + y + z

add10 = add 10

add10 100 2
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