Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!baden@ucbdali From: baden@ucbdali Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: jnw's question about omitting the 'bu' function from Berkeley FP Message-ID: <3748@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 01:18:52 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.3748 Posted: Tue Dec 11 01:18:52 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 07:46:52 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.ARPA Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 24 From: baden@ucbdali (Scott Baden) On page 29 of the Berkeley FP Users Manual, Rev. 4.1 I find the sentence >> The binary-to-unary functions [sic] ('bu') has been omitted. No explanation or illuminating commentary is offered. It doesn't appear to me to be all that complex to implement 'bu'. Am I missing something subtle? Or is it the case that the Berkeley implementors didn't feel this sort of function is useful? Evidently 'no explanation or illuminating commentary' was necessary; you were able to anwer the question on our own: While we're on this subject, I wonder why Backus includes the function 'bu' when a more general currying function might be desirable. Scott B. Baden ucbvax!baden baden@berkeley.arpa