Re: Proposal: table.sort returning the sorted table.

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

Henning Diedrich <hd2010@eonblast.com> wrote:

> I heard in some other quarters it's called schönfinkeln and is all the hype.

Is this using Schönfinkeln to mean something different from Currying?

Method chaining like o:m1():m2() is not related to currying because each
method returns the object so that further actions may be performed on it,
whereas with a curried application f()()() the function returns a
different more specific function.

It is good OO library design for a method that modifies an object in
place to return its self.

Tony.
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