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  • C Chris Maunder

    That's exactly my reaction. I was thinking "hang on - this actually looks really good. Why is he dissing it". Then I turned off auto-sarcasm and it became clear.

    cheers, Chris Maunder

    CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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    leppie
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    Hey, I dont always rant! :) PS: I even took the time to explain to the author why I called her article 'Useless'.

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    IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4 out now (27 May 2008)

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      Don't see where that greatly helps you, perhaps I'm missing a particular scenario as you can either pass another expression which converts to object (blewh) or you could just go and do composition with Func<T,..> No? If you want expression templates well, C# doesn't have them; they designed the tedium of C# compiler away with that signature :)

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      Basically it lets you make curried functions (functions with 1 free variable). So imagine you have foo(a,b). Now you can say bar(b) = foo(1,b). And call bar(x), and foo(1,x) gets executed.

      xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
      IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4 out now (27 May 2008)

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      • C Christopher Duncan

        Chris Maunder wrote:

        Then I turned off auto-sarcasm

        Yeah, it took me a minute to remember where the switch was.

        Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com

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        Gary Wheeler
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        I'm middle-aged. My switch atrophied and fell off years ago.

        Software Zen: delete this;

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        • C Christopher Duncan

          Chris Maunder wrote:

          Then I turned off auto-sarcasm

          Yeah, it took me a minute to remember where the switch was.

          Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com

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          Vincent Curry
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          Maybe we should have a new rule for posting in the Lounge, as in all posts should be sarcastic?

          Vincent www.pub-olympics.com

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          • V Vincent Curry

            Maybe we should have a new rule for posting in the Lounge, as in all posts should be sarcastic?

            Vincent www.pub-olympics.com

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            Dan Neely
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            Vincent Curry wrote:

            Maybe we should have a new rule for posting in the Lounge, as in all posts should be sarcastic?

            That's an utterly brillant idea.

            You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon

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            • C Chris Maunder

              That's exactly my reaction. I was thinking "hang on - this actually looks really good. Why is he dissing it". Then I turned off auto-sarcasm and it became clear.

              cheers, Chris Maunder

              CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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              stevev6
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              Sounds like something that Ms. Clinton would use.

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                Basically it lets you make curried functions (functions with 1 free variable). So imagine you have foo(a,b). Now you can say bar(b) = foo(1,b). And call bar(x), and foo(1,x) gets executed.

                xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
                IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4 out now (27 May 2008)

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                User of Users Group
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                Not sure what you're trying to do with it again but I think people are doing that without explicit CreateDelegate (should be "new delegate" construct generated by compiler) or whatever it was along the shorthand lines of: public static Func< T, Func<U, Z>> Curry<T, U, Z>(Func<T, U, Z> fn) { return new Func<Func<T, U, Z>, Func<T, Func<U, Z>>>( f => x => y => f(x, y))(fn); } if that makes any sense. Probably not what you want but you can split it up and use extension methods. It doesn't look good to me, because it is pure C# unreadable :)

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                  Not sure what you're trying to do with it again but I think people are doing that without explicit CreateDelegate (should be "new delegate" construct generated by compiler) or whatever it was along the shorthand lines of: public static Func< T, Func<U, Z>> Curry<T, U, Z>(Func<T, U, Z> fn) { return new Func<Func<T, U, Z>, Func<T, Func<U, Z>>>( f => x => y => f(x, y))(fn); } if that makes any sense. Probably not what you want but you can split it up and use extension methods. It doesn't look good to me, because it is pure C# unreadable :)

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                  leppie
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                  That is exactly what I am saying :) But this way allows you to do it to languages that does not support that compiler construct, or programatically.

                  xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
                  IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008)

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                  • D Dan Neely

                    Vincent Curry wrote:

                    Maybe we should have a new rule for posting in the Lounge, as in all posts should be sarcastic?

                    That's an utterly brillant idea.

                    You know, every time I tried to win a bar-bet about being able to count to 1000 using my fingers I always got punched out when I reached 4.... -- El Corazon

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                    SimonRigby
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                    dan neely wrote:

                    That's an utterly brillant idea.

                    OK was that sarcasm? :)

                    The only thing unpredictable about me is just how predictable I'm going to be.

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                    • C Christopher Duncan

                      leppie wrote:

                      I meant it as a compliment.

                      That's the part I didn't get. :) I've become so accustomed to the incredibly poor quality of documentation coming from MS these days that I just assumed it was a well deserved snarky commentary. Quality documentation from MSDN - who knew?

                      Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com

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                      JamminJimE
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                      Wow! It's almost like a bigfoot sighting or UFO encounter (except this time we DIDN'T get probed)! You know, they are going to read these posts and IMMEDIATELY take down that page. Everyone, QUICK!!! Save that HTML to your local machine. That way we have proof!! hehehehe :laugh:

                      JamminJimE Microsoft Certified Application Developer
                      Why are we still calling it Common Sense when it's just not that common?

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                      • G Gary Wheeler

                        I'm middle-aged. My switch atrophied and fell off years ago.

                        Software Zen: delete this;

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                        macu
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                        You can get that seen to these days you know.

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                          You can get that seen to these days you know.

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                          Gary Wheeler
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                          Yes, but the prosthetics are so ... unsatisfying.

                          Software Zen: delete this;

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                            Yes, but the prosthetics are so ... unsatisfying.

                            Software Zen: delete this;

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                            macu
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                            Well isn't everything at this age... [sigh]

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                            • L leppie

                              Basically it lets you make curried functions (functions with 1 free variable). So imagine you have foo(a,b). Now you can say bar(b) = foo(1,b). And call bar(x), and foo(1,x) gets executed.

                              xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
                              IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4 out now (27 May 2008)

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                              Gary Wheeler
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                              <Homer_sound> Hmmm.... Curry... </Homer_sound>

                              Software Zen: delete this;

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                              • S SimonRigby

                                dan neely wrote:

                                That's an utterly brillant idea.

                                OK was that sarcasm? :)

                                The only thing unpredictable about me is just how predictable I'm going to be.

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                                allodoxaphobia
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                                you catch on quickly

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                                  you catch on quickly

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                                  SimonRigby
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                                  I try :)

                                  The only thing unpredictable about me is just how predictable I'm going to be.

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