[Python-Dev] PEP 309 re-written (original) (raw)

Peter Harris scav at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Mar 1 17:09:41 EST 2004

Hi

The latest version of PEP 309 has been published in the usual place. I hope much of the woollyness (sp?) of the early versions has been sheared off, leaving more ..um.. [metaphor panic!] .. mutton?

I have settled on calling the whole thing "partial function application", broadly including object methods, classes and other callable objects. I want to name the constructor partial(), because that name will do for now and doesn't do violence to accepted terminology the way curry() or closure() would.

I really want to keep the name the same from now until the PEP is ready for review: this little proposal doesn't deserve as many name changes as the Mozilla project after all.

Not sure what sort of feedback the PEP needs before review, so I'm open to any comments about the wording of the proposal and the usefulness or otherwise of its intent.

If anyone can think of any really elegant hacks that are naturally expressed by partial function application I'd like to see them, and with permission add them to the PEP. I feel that it's more likely to get accepted if there is a better example than my cheesy Tkinter callbacks!

Peter Harris

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