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I didn't know what "point-free style programming" was so:

> Tacit programming (point-free programming) is a programming paradigm in which a function definition does not include information regarding its arguments, using combinators and function composition [...] instead of variables.

from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/944446/what-is-point-fre...

I guess it's the fact that in programming languages like OCaml you write functions like that:

  let some_fn arg1 arg2 = ...
and so you can partially apply them:

* using `some_fn` without any argument is manipulating a function with two arguments

* using `some_fn arg1` returns a new function that only takes one argument

* using `some_fn arg1 arg2` applies the entire function

parent baby 3 years ago

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