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JavaScript for C# developers: currying

There’s a concept in functional programming called currying which gives you the ability to create one function from another, and have the created function call the original but with some arguments prefilled in. To be ultra-rigorous, we assume the original function has n arguments, and currying produces a chain of n functions each taking one argument to produce the same results as the original. We, however, will skip that rigorous definition since it’s too constricting for our discussion here. Instead  we’ll talk about partial function application, but call it currying anyway. In essence: we want to call function A that takes lots of parameters, but since some/most of them are preset to some default values, we’d prefer having another function B that calls A filling in those presets to save time/effort. […]

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