Areas for partial application
Although partial application is used in quite similar scenarios to the currying ones, the possibility of having more than just one parameter makes it more applicable. Here are some good places to apply partial application:
- Configuration management: In systems where configurations vary slightly between environments or parts of the application, partial application can simplify configuration management by pre-setting common parameters.
- User interface events: In GUI programming, event handlers often require specific parameters that don’t change once set. Partial application allows developers to prepare these handlers with predefined arguments, making the code cleaner and easier to manage.
- API integration: When interacting with external APIs, certain parameters such as API keys and user tokens remain constant across requests. Partially applying these parameters to API request functions can simplify function calls and enhance security...