[net.lang] Berkeley FP question

jnw@uf-csv.UUCP (Joseph N. Wilson) (11/19/84)

["Laugh while you can monkey boy."]

On page 29 of the Berkeley FP Users Manual, Rev. 4.1 I find the sentence

>>	The binary-to-unary functions [sic] ('bu') has been omitted.

No explanation or illuminating commentary is offered.  It doesn't appear
to me to be all that complex to implement 'bu'. Am I missing something subtle?
Or is it the case that the Berkeley implementors didn't feel this sort of
function is useful?

While we're on this subject, I wonder why Backus includes the function
'bu' when a more general currying function might be desirable.

Any comments?

 joe "If only Alex Colvin was here I wouldn't have had to ask" wilson
 Univ. of Florida
 CIS dept.
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