Currying a proc with keyword arguments in Ruby

Question

Say I have a generic Proc, Lambda or method which takes an optional second argument:

pow = -> (base, exp: 2) { base         


        

Answer 1

You could build your own keyword-flavored curry method that collects keyword arguments until the required parameters are present. Something like:

def kw_curry(method)
  -> (**kw_args) {
    required = method.parameters.select { |type, _| type == :keyreq }
    if required.all? { |_, name| kw_args.has_key?(name) }
      method.call(**kw_args)
    else
      -> (**other_kw_args) { kw_curry(method)[**kw_args, **other_kw_args] }
    end
  }
end

def foo(a:, b:, c: nil)
  { a: a, b: b, c: c }
end

proc = kw_curry(method(:foo))
proc[a: 1]              #=> #
proc[b: 1]              #=> #
proc[a: 1, b: 2]        #=> {:a=>1, :b=>2, :c=>nil}
proc[b: 2][a: 1]        #=> {:a=>1, :b=>2, :c=>nil}
proc[a: 1, c: 3][b: 2]  #=> {:a=>1, :b=>2, :c=>3}

The example above is limited to keyword arguments only, but you can certainly extend it to support both, keyword arguments and positional arguments.