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This chapter looks at two ways in which functions (and in fact methods) in Scala can comprise components of reuse within a software system. These two approaches are partial application of functions and Currying. The two approaches represent variations on a theme. In both cases they allow a function with one or more parameters to have one or more of those parameters bound to a specific value to create a new function with one or more fewer variables.
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Hunt, J. (2018). Partially Applied Functions and Currying. In: A Beginner's Guide to Scala, Object Orientation and Functional Programming. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75771-1_24
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