Is currying just a way to avoid inheritance?

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Published on 2010-04-27T23:18:17Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 23:23 UTC
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So my understanding of currying (based on SO questions) is that it lets you partially set parameters of a function and return a "truncated" function as a result.

If you have a big hairy function takes 10 parameters and looks like

function (location, type, gender, jumpShot%, SSN, vegetarian, salary) {
    //weird stuff
}

and you want a "subset" function that will let you deal with presets for all but the jumpShot%, shouldn't you just break out a class that inherits from the original function?

I suppose what I'm looking for is a use case for this pattern. Thanks!

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