Bug 865135 - Uplift Add-on SDK integration branch to Firefox.

addon-sdk/source/lib/sdk/lang/functional.js

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ module.metadata = {
 };
 
 const { setTimeout } = require("../timers");
+const { deprecateFunction } = require("../util/deprecate");
 
 /**
  * Takes `lambda` function and returns a method. When returned method is
@@ -55,14 +56,15 @@ function invoke(callee, params, self) callee.apply(self, params);
 exports.invoke = invoke;
 
 /**
- * Curries a function with the arguments given.
+ * Takes a function and bind values to one or more arguments, returning a new
+ * function of smaller arity.
  *
  * @param {Function} fn
- *    The function to curry
+ *    The function to partial
  *
- * @returns The function curried
+ * @returns The new function with binded values
  */
-function curry(fn) {
+function partial(fn) {
   if (typeof fn !== "function")
     throw new TypeError(String(fn) + " is not a function");
 
@@ -70,7 +72,12 @@ function curry(fn) {
 
   return function() fn.apply(this, args.concat(Array.slice(arguments)));
 }
-exports.curry = curry;
+exports.partial = partial;
+
+exports.curry = deprecateFunction(partial,
+  'curry is deprecated, ' +
+  'please use require("sdk/lang/functional").partial instead.'
+);
 
 /**
  * Returns the composition of a list of functions, where each function consumes