Re: small Q

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Subject: Re: small Q
From: Andy Smith <ams70@cam.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 05:15:01 -0400 (EDT)
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Thant Tessman <thant@acm.org> writes:

> SML functions take only one value and return only one value. It just so
> happens that these values can be tuples. This is the Right Way (TM) to
> do it.

Yes, although there is another good way of having multiple parameters
for an ML function: currying.  A curried function that looks like it
has N parameters is actually a one-parameter function that returns a
function with N-1 parameters.  Which is very cool.

    Andy
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Andy Smith                                             ams70@cam.ac.uk
St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP, UK               (07989) 453208

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