[mercury-users] Idea for a currying library

[Fergus Henderson]

On 18-Jan-2000, Richard A. O'Keefe <ok at hermes.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> Ralph Becket wrote:
> 	I don't mind supplying top-level modes for foo/3, but it does grate
> 	having to write them for lambdas where it should be bleeding obvious
> 	what is meant in most cases.
> 	
> It would be very nice if mode &c inference for lambda-expressions were the
> default, even when everything else was explicit.

Type inference for lambda-expressions is indeed the default.
Mode and determinism inference for lambda expressions is something
that the compiler just doesn't know how to do; even with the `--infer-all'
option, you still need to specify the modes and determinism of lambda
expressions explicitly.

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