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Currying and Partial Application

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In this chapter we are going to see what the term currying means. Once we understand what currying does and why it’s useful, we will move to another concept in functional programming called Partial application. Both currying and partial application are important to understand as we will be using them during functional composition!

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© 2017 Anto Aravinth

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Aravinth, A. (2017). Currying and Partial Application. In: Beginning Functional JavaScript. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2656-8_6

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