PEP309 - built-in curry class (revisions)

Steven Taschuk staschuk at telusplanet.net
Fri Feb 28 12:00:31 EST 2003


Quoth Peter Harris:
> Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote in message news:<3E5F304D.7743C953 at alcyone.com>...
  [...]
> > What's confusing you is the order varies.  Sometimes (f circle g) means
> > f(g(x)), sometimes it means g(f(x)) [where circle is the function
> > composition operator].  Which one it means is dependent on the
> > conventions used by the writer, so you need to check first.
> 
> Oh well, we could go with the f(g(x)) convention from the Mathworld entry.
> But it's not even part of the PEP (yet?) so, no debate from me.

I think we should let the community decide: an open discussion of
the relative readability and teachability of each convention, then
a vote.  I'm sure a consensus will emerge after a few dozen
threads on the subject.

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