Am Mo., 14. März 2022 um 17:06 Uhr schrieb Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
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>
> Hi siiky,
>
> On 2022-03-13 22:46 +0000, siiky wrote:
> > On 13 March 2022 22:29:28 UTC, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe <xxxxxx@sigwinch.xyz> wrote:
> > >On 2022-03-06 22:42 +0000, Amirouche wrote:
> > >> I vote for kappa.
> > >
> > >Unless there are objections, I think I've settled on kappa.
> > >I haven't found any other uses of that name in the libraries of the
> > >major Scheme implementations, so I think it's reasonable.
> > >
> >
> > I'm curious to know the origin. Is it the letter, the meme, or the youkai[0]? (:
>
> It's just the Latinized spelling-out of κ (which, as with λ, could be
> a synonym in Schemes with full Unicode names).  The intended mnemonic
> is "kappa/κ as in kurry".
>
> > And how would it be used? (kappa (...) ...)
>
> Yes.  It's just a replacement name for lambda*.
>
> > and (define-kappa (foo ...) ...) ?
>
> I still prefer define-curried for the define wrapper.

So why not "curried" instead of "kappa" then? I think this also helps
people who don't know SRFI 232 to understand what is roughly going on.
"kappa" is just as good (or bad) as "wolfgang" when it comes to
carrying information. :)