Scala's partial function

[soloviewoff]

For some reason, I always stumble upon Scala's term "partial function".  I always tend to think about it as "partial function application", i.e. currying.  But they use it for a function that doesn't have a fallback in the pattern matching clause and doesn't match some of combinations of input arguments.  The feature itself is great (especially

Comments

[ex_juan_gan]

Wow, who could guess this term could be a problem! Thanks for pointing it out.

[soloviewoff]

Many terms in programming are so overloaded that it's really hard to find a good one...