Partial Application

Curried functions enable partial application, which can be used to call a function with only some of its arguments and get a function back as a result for further use. That way, we can create new functions from existing ones which can serve as a powerful tool. For example, with our multiply function, we can create a function that always multiplies a number by2:

ghci> multiplyBy2 = multiply 1 2

ghci> :t multiplyBy2
multiply2 :: Num a => a -> a -- this function takes only 1 argument

ghci> multiplyBy2 5
10