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Currying is a technique which allows new functions to be created from existing functions by binding one or more parameters to a specific value. It is a source of reuse of functions in Kotlin which means that functionality can be written once, in one place and then reused in multiple other situations.

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Hunt, J. (2021). Curried Functions. In: Beginner's Guide to Kotlin Programming. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80893-8_7

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