On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 4:59 PM Philip Oakley [off-list ref] wrote:

sounds like "Currying" a function but with the parameters taken in any
order, though, in a sense, perhaps not generating intermediate functions...

It's like currying if you could pass g(x) = f(x, y) to one block of
code and h(y) = f(x, y) to another block of code, so that each of g
and h are each like curried versions of f that "bake in" one of the
arguments, without having to know which one will get called first. :-)

Jonathan Gilbert