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: I prefer a new task, not a change to this task. --[[User:Kernigh|Kernigh]] 00:25, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
=== Current task description is a bit odd ===
Reading over the current task description, I think it is somewhat odd. It asks you to define a function ''f'' taking a single argument, and a higher-order function ''fs'' (essential ''map'') and to partially apply ''f'' to ''fs''. The most common use case of partial application, however, would be, given a function ''f'' of arity at least 2, partially apply arguments until it has remaining arity 1 and then pass this partially applied function to ''fs'' (i.e. ''map''). Even if we do not want to adopt my proposal above, I believe the current task description should still be modified. I would in this case advise ''f'' to be of arity 3, as this makes the task slightly more challenging and interesting for statically-typed languages. —''[[User:Ruud Koot|Ruud]]'' 10:29, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
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