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

'Boyd Brown' on Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:11:59 GMT, sez:

b is 2

b = Add();

// b is 0.

(+ 2)

// returns 2.

(+)

// returns 0.

// it's greek...it's lambda...omg, it's lisp!

(+ 2 3 4)

// returns 9.

// out of the deep, dark, damp earth lisp is resurrected...clojure.org

'Coupon Codes' on Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:29:25 GMT, sez:

It's looking like a small thing. When enter in it...it's mind blowing..

'Ishpeck' on Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:16:56 GMT, sez:

b is a curried function. :P

b = Add(2)
c = b(2) // Now c is 4

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