What then, is b?

'Tommy' on Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:20:32 GMT, sez:

b is a function that adds 2 to its argument.

'Richard Mason' on Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:27:20 GMT, sez:

I thought it was more the smell of vindaloo on his breath that gave it away.

'Huseyin Tufekcilerli' on Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:30:08 GMT, sez:

b is 42

'OJ' on Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:31:29 GMT, sez:

One side of me says it's a partially applied function waiting for a number to add to 2.

The other side of me is telling me to stop playing spin the bottle with Neo.

'kokokrunch' on Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:15:32 GMT, sez:

b is 2

'Shalom Craimer' on Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:05:23 GMT, sez:

"the 11th letter of the greek alphabet" ? That's a heavy-handed hint, sir!

Thanks for the laugh - that was fun!

(The article almost makes me yearn for a Zork-style story about a programmer coming-of-age or something.)

'tarun' on Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:42:40 GMT, sez:

I am with tommy on this one:

eleventh letter of greek alphabet is lambda.
hence applying lambda calculus (in particular currying) and we can see that b is a function that is just curried form of add(x,y) where b adds 2 to its argument.

'pizza' on Sun, 18 Jul 2010 23:01:32 GMT, sez:

> let add x y = x + y
> add 2 3
5
> :type add
add :: (Num a) => a -> a -> a
> :type add 2
add 2 :: (Num t) => t -> t
> :type add 2 3
add 2 3 :: (Num t) => t

'Code Rant' on Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:25:05 GMT, sez:

You've been smoking that Haskell crack again.

'free promo codes' on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:42:21 GMT, sez:

yes as you said its difficult to understand any unknown language and its true as well that all features cant be obtained in the same langauge

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