Learing OCaml: Currying

01 Apr 2007 19:20 - (0) comments

Wikipedia defines Currying as:

..the technique of transforming a function that takes multiple arguments into a function that takes a single argument (the other arguments having been specified by the curry).

For example you can define a function in OCaml called multiply:

let multiply a b =

  a * b

  ;;

You can simply call this function:

multiply 5 6;; (* result in 30 *)

You can also use this function to create other functions:

let double = multiply 2;;

let triple = multiply 3;;
	
triple 8;; (* result in 24 *)