Re: Is there a function for auto currying in Elisp?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I've been looking for a function that would automatically curry its
> argument, but couldn't find it.  Maybe I just missed it?

I'm quite familiar with currying, but in the context of Elisp it's
rather tricky to give a good and reliable specification of what it
should do.  E.g. what should (curry #'apply) or (curry #'list) return?

So, I think we can't magically handle all cases.
Of course, we can do the easy cases:

    (defun curry (f n)
      (if (< n 2)
          f
        (lambda (x)
          (curry (apply-partially f x) (- n 1)))))

but ... I'm not sure we want to encourage this.
What's your use case(s)?


        Stefan