Cannot create apply function with static language?

Question

I have read that with a statically typed language like Scala or Haskell there is no way to create or provide a Lisp apply function:

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Answer 1

try folds. they're probably similar to what you want. just write a special case of it.

haskell: foldr1 (+) [0..3] => 6

incidentally, foldr1 is functionally equivalent to foldr with the accumulator initialized as the element of the list.

there are all sorts of folds. they all technically do the same thing, though in different ways, and might do their arguments in different orders. foldr is just one of the simpler ones.