Listing 5 is an example of a curried function.. “Curried function” is a bit of a frustrating name. It honors a person, which is nice, but it doesn’t describe the concept, which is confusing.

This was written mainly as a learning exercise. fn can return a function, which in turn returns a function, which in turn returns another function, and so on… There aren’t any restrictions on how the ...

Figure 1. Functional JavaScript is available as an ebook (without DRM) from O'Reilly or as a paperback. Anyone who has followed my missives on programming have noted the varied exposure to ...