lambda-placeholders

A Haskell library to emulate Scala's placeholder syntax feature.

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Programming language: Haskell

License: BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

Tags: Data     Language     Lambda    

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lambda-placeholders

lambda-placeholders is a Haskell library to emulate the placeholders feature of Scala.

Background

• Placeholders in Scala act similar to those used in category theory.
• Rather than create a lambda or name a function, an underscore is used in place of a parameter and the function is abstracted over that location.
• This placeholders library doesn't use underscores, rather it leverages similar capabilities found in TupleSections.
• A description of Scala placeholders can be found here.
  

Example

{-# LANGUAGE
 TupleSections 
 #-}
module Main where 
import Language.LambdaPlaceholders

foo (a,b,c) = a + b + c

curried_foo = foo.$.(2, , )

main = do
    putStrLn $ show $ curried_foo 4 5