Question

Given a method DoSomething that takes a (parameterless) function and handles it in some way. Is there a better way to create the ‘overloads’ for functions with parameters than the snippet below?

public static TResult DoSomething<TResult>(Func<TResult> func) {     //call func() and do something else }  public static TResult DoSomething<T0, TResult>(     Func<T0, TResult> func,     T0 arg0) {     return DoSomething(() => func(arg0)); }  public static TResult DoSomething<T0, T1, TResult>(     Func<T0, T1, TResult> func,     T0 arg0, T1 arg1) {     return DoSomething(arg => func(arg, arg1), arg0); }  public static TResult DoSomething<T0, T1, T2, TResult>(     Func<T0, T1, T2, TResult> func,     T0 arg0, T1 arg1, T2 arg2) {     return DoSomething(arg => func(arg, arg1, arg2), arg0); } 

Answer 1

EDIT: As noted in comments, this is partial application rather than currying. I wrote a blog post on my understanding of the difference, which folks may find interesting.

Well, it’s not particularly different – but I’d separate out the currying part from the ‘calling DoSomething’ part:

public static Func<TResult> Apply<TResult, TArg> (Func<TArg, TResult> func, TArg arg) {     return () => func(arg); }  public static Func<TResult> Apply<TResult, TArg1, TArg2> (Func<TArg1, TArg2, TResult> func,                                                           TArg1 arg1, TArg2 arg2) {     return () => func(arg1, arg2); }  // etc 

Then:

DoSomething(Apply(foo, 1)); 

That way you can reuse the currying code in other situations – including cases where you don’t want to call the newly-returned delegate immediately. (You might want to curry it more later on, for example.)