--- title: A Case Against Currying | daily.dev description: Curried functions are a staple of functional programming, often justified by enabling elegant partial application. However, the tuple style (passing multiple... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/a-case-against-currying-pmzu0recm twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: A Case Against Currying | daily.dev og:description: Curried functions are a staple of functional programming, often justified by enabling elegant partial application. However, the tuple style (passing multiple... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-case-against-currying-pmzu0recm og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PMZu0REcm.png og:image:alt: A Case Against Currying og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # A Case Against Currying **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Curried functions are a staple of functional programming, often justified by enabling elegant partial application. However, the tuple style (passing multiple parameters as a single tuple) is argued to be a viable and often clearer alternative. Partial application is not exclusive to currying — a 'hole operator' syntax can achieve the same with tuple-style functions, sometimes more readably. Curried function types also have an asymmetric shape (inputs staggered, outputs tupled) that causes friction when composing with higher-order functions like `map`, requiring explicit `uncurry` calls. A real-world example from a Rocq proof assistant project illustrates this pain. The one area where currying has a genuine edge is dependently typed languages, where dependent tuples become unwieldy. The conclusion is not to abolish currying but to consider the tuple style more seriously, especially in new language design. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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