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I have a Python function that allows both of those: def randomString(alphabet, length): .... randomHex = partialApply(randomString, alphabet="

• riwsky 12y ago
  And in case anyone else wants such a function, it's available in the standard library as functools.partial: https://docs.python.org/2/library/functools.html https://docs.python.org/2/library/functools.html
  • TheLoneWolfling 12y ago
    Eh, I don't like the one in functools. It allows overriding of variables previously defined, which personally causes more problems than it solves. (So `functools.partial(foo, b=3)(a=1, b=2)` doesn't throw an error, and is equivalent to calling `foo(a=1, b=2)`)
• CrossEye 12y ago
  I think languages that have named parameters have very different sorts of techniques for these things. I don't know if they're more powerful or not, but they take a very different approach, and offer different design choices.