Talk:Partial application

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The type signatures section doesn't explain.
The article seems to be Haskell-centric.
Hard going if you are a programmer but not in a functional language.

--Paddy (talk) 02:36, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agree, I'm might expand it later. For now it should be self-evident to people familiar with some type theory, but might not be very comprehensible for those without.
Disagree, ML-centric might describe it just as accurately and that's mostly because those two languages are the only two mainstream languages which "natively" support currying and partial application.
True, related to point 1, but that's a general problem if one subject builds on another. Could you explain which points you would like to see clarified most?

—Ruud 10:31, 26 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]