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		manoDev on May 20, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Functional Programming in 5 Minutes In FP, you can treat all functions as "curryable" because that's how you achieve composition. So that would be the equivalent of naming all your functions "callTwice". Now that doesn't make sense.

PySlice on May 20, 2013 [–]

I don't see how that invalidates my explanation

In F# I would certainly call it "callTwice" too:

  let callTwice aFunction y = aFunction (aFunction y)

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