Timothy Boronczyk's Blog: Currying in PHP

Courtesy PHPDeveloper.org  Fri, 07/10/2009 - 12:33

Timothy Boronczyk has posted about an interesting concept you could use in your applications - currying (made possible in PHP 5.3.x and above):

What happens if you don't have all the arguments handy for a function, but you want to give whatever arguments you do have now and then provide the rest of them to the function later?

This is called currying , and is a core concept in functional programming.

It's messy, but possible to...

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