Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:52:14 -0700, Tim Sweeney wrote:

> - "f x y" is unique to the Haskell and LISP families of languages, and
> implies that most library functions are curried.

No, Lisp doesn't curry. It really writes "(f x y)", which is different
from "((f x) y)" (which is actually Scheme, not Lisp).

In fact the syntax "f x y" without mandatory parens fits non-lispish
non-curried syntaxes too. The space doesn't have to be left- or
right-associative; it just binds all arguments at once, and this
expression is different both from "f (x y)" and "(f x) y".

The only glitch is that you have to express application to 0 arguments
somehow. If you use "f()", you can't use "()" as an expression (for
empty tuple for example). But when you accept it, it works. It's my
favorite function application syntax.

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