Comments on: Currying in Smalltalk

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:52:42 +0000

Previous comment by ‘Walter Arlene’ is spam (mouse over their name and see their url is a link to a classified ad site and their post is content free.)

Also – excellent post on currying. I’m always blown away how Smalltalk (and some other dynamic languages, to be fair) can be made to do things they were never designed to do with minimal effort.

By: David Morley

David Morley — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:00:13 +0000

Vassili? Is it you? Moscow, 1993?

Still doing Smalltalk? You’re lucky. The rest of us were forced out of Smalltalk in ~1997. Vadim quit, in part because of this. Andre held on as long as possible. Most of the others never did get it. The newer hires have never heard of it.

I’d love to hear from you. Pls contact me at [address removed to prevent harvesting by spambots --v].

[editor: please forward this to Vassili Bykov]

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:47:50 +0000

Clever implementation, Vassili :)

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:29:11 +0000

argh!

That is what I get for not reading the whole article before commenting.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:26:59 +0000

Vassili

I believe your code snippet is incorrect, as it will not evaluate.
I think you meant to write;

| add inc |
add := [:a | [:b | a + b]].
inc := add value: 1.
(inc value: 2) + (inc value: 3)

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:37:15 +0000

Thanks for the explanation! I just heard this term during a podcast on dynamic languages by some guys that were Smalltalkers (Ruby was their game). They struggled to explain this concept. As you can imagine it’s difficult to do without code examples. Now, thanks to you, I understand it.

Sean