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The formal spec of curry is vague in a few respects:
Specification
The formal syntax of a curried expression, in the style of the
[5]Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme:
<curried-expression> --> (curry <proc> <const-or-slot>*)
| (curry <proc> <const-or-slot>* <...>)
<proc> --> <expression> ; a procedure
<const-or-slot> --> <> ; a "slot"
| <expression> ; a constant
The macro curry transforms a <curried-expression> into a <lambda
expression> with as many formal variables as there are slots in the
list <const-or-slot>*. The body of the resulting <lambda
expression> calls <proc> with the arguments from <const-or-slot>*
in the order they appear. In case there is a rest-slot symbol for
the residual arguments of a variable arity procedure, the resulting
procedure is also of variable arity and the body calls <proc> with
all arguments provided to the actual call of the specialized
procedure.
Why are "const"s called "constant"? May they be any expressions?
When is the procedure expression evaluated? When are the "constants"
evaluated? In other words, which of the following expressions are
legal, and what do they return?
(let* ((x +) (y (curry x <> 1))) (set! x -) (y 0))
(let* ((x 1) (y (curry + <> x))) (set! x -1) (y 0))
The reference implementations give different results.
-al