Many Python fans have longed for the language to adopt functional programming features. Now they can get those features without having to switch to a new Python implementation. Coconut, a newly ...

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.

¹ One of the “functional programming myths” I wrote about before is that “functional programming” is well-defined. It isn’t, and, even if we gave it a definition, the name would be a ...