24 May, 2009 in Functional Programming, Ruby by khelll

Ruby Currying

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Update: This post was updated to show the difference between Currying and Partial Functions.
Currying is a concept in Functional Programming that’s enabled by Higher-order functions. It’s best described as: the ability to take a function that accepts n parameters and turns it into a composition of n functions each of them take 1 parameter. [...]

24 May, 2009 in Functional Programming, Ruby by khelll

Ruby and Functional Programming

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Ruby is known to support the functional paradigm. This article is going to walk you through the Functional Programming page on WikiPedia, to revise the general concepts of functional programming and to explain how Ruby supports them.
According to wikipedia, a functional programming can be described as follows:
In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm [...]