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Carrying vs Currying - What's the difference?

carrying | currying |

As verbs the difference between carrying and currying

is that carrying is while currying is .

As nouns the difference between carrying and currying

is that carrying is transportation while currying is (computing) the technique of transforming a function that takes multiple arguments into a function that takes a single argument (the first of the arguments to the original function) and returns a new function that takes the remainder of the arguments and returns the result.

carrying

English

(wikipedia carrying)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Transportation.

    • currying

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    Taken from (Haskell Curry), a computer scientist.

    Noun

    (wikipedia currying) (en noun)
  • (computing) The technique of transforming a function that takes multiple arguments into a function that takes a single argument (the first of the arguments to the original function) and returns a new function that takes the remainder of the arguments and returns the result.