partialact

Partialact refers to a concept found in certain programming contexts, particularly related to functional programming paradigms and asynchronous operations. It describes a function or operation that has been "partially applied," meaning that some of its arguments have been provided in advance, but not all of them. This results in a new function that "remembers" the initial arguments and is waiting for the remaining arguments to be supplied before it can execute its full logic.

This technique is valuable for creating more specialized functions from more general ones. For example, if you have a function that takes three arguments, you could create a partialact by supplying the first argument. The resulting partialact would then be a function that takes the remaining two arguments. This is often used to reduce boilerplate code and improve readability by creating reusable, pre-configured versions of more complex functions.

Partial application is a form of currying, where a function that takes multiple arguments is transformed into a sequence of functions, each taking a single argument. Partialact is a more general case, where any subset of arguments can be provided, not just the first one. It is a common feature in languages that support first-class functions and closures, enabling powerful composition and abstraction patterns. The core idea is to defer the execution of a function until all necessary inputs are available.