[mercury-users] currying does not work with higher order predicates ?

[Fergus Henderson]

On 24-Jul-2001, Holger Krug <hkrug at rationalizer.com> wrote:
> It seems as if currying is not allowed for higher order predicates.
> Is this assumption correct or did I make some other kind of error ?

That's correct.  As Tyson explained, you need to use an explicit lambda
expression.

The reason we don't allow that is that type checking/inference turns out to
be a bit harder to do in that case.

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