Attribute::Curried -- Functional goodness for Perl.


NAME

Attribute::Curried -- Functional goodness for Perl.


SYNOPSIS

  use Attribute::Curried;

  sub bracket :Curry(3) {
      $_[1].$_[0].$_[2]
  }

  sub flip :Curry(3) {
      &{$_[0]}(@_[2,1]);
  }

  my @xs = map { bracket $_ } 1..3;
  my $i = 0;
  my @ys = map { ++$i == 2 ? $_ : flip $_ } @xs;
  print join(', ', map { &$_('<', '>') } @ys), "\n";
  # prints '>1<, <2>, >3<'


DESCRIPTION

Currying is a powerful technique familiar to programmers in functional languages like Lisp and Haskell. When called with less arguments than it needs, a curried function will return a new function that ``remembers'' the arguments passed so far, i.e. a closure. Once the function has enough arguments, it will perform its operation and return a value.

The typical Scheme example is something like this:

  (define (add a b) (+ a b))
  (define add2 (add 2))
  (map add2 (list 1 2 3))
  ;; => (list 3 4 5)

Using Attribute::Curried, the Perl equivalent looks like this:

  sub add :Curry(2) { $_[0] + $_[1] }
  my $add2 = add(2);
  map { &$add2($_) } 1..3;
  # => (3, 4, 5)


AUTHOR

Sean O'Rourke, <seano@cpan.org>

Bug reports welcome, patches even more welcome.


COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2002 Sean O'Rourke. All rights reserved, some wrongs reversed. This module is distributed under the same terms as Perl itself. Let me know if you actually find it useful.

 Attribute::Curried -- Functional goodness for Perl.