Assignment versus binding

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 5:17 PM, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> Seriously though... this ties in with the other issues about *purely*
>> functional languages being rather impractical, and the purity
>> generally being sullied some by things like monads (which I still
>> don't understand, despite the explanations in another thread).
>
>
> If you'd like to understand better, I could put together
> an example that illustrates the basic idea behind monads
> using Python. It's really not that hard; it only seems
> hard because it's traditionally presented in a very
> abstract and mathematical way.
>
> In the process, I think I could also answer your earlier
> question about why automatic currying is considered such
> a good idea.

Wasn't my question, but sure, would be happy to hear about that. How
do you handle variadic functions?

ChrisA