JavaScript curry: what are the practical applications?

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Here’s an interesting AND practical use of currying in JavaScript that uses closures:

function converter(toUnit, factor, offset, input) {
    offset = offset || 0;
    return [((offset + input) * factor).toFixed(2), toUnit].join(" ");
}

var milesToKm = converter.curry('km', 1.60936, undefined);
var poundsToKg = converter.curry('kg', 0.45460, undefined);
var farenheitToCelsius = converter.curry('degrees C', 0.5556, -32);

milesToKm(10);            // returns "16.09 km"
poundsToKg(2.5);          // returns "1.14 kg"
farenheitToCelsius(98);   // returns "36.67 degrees C"

This relies on a curry extension of Function, although as you can see it only uses apply (nothing too fancy):

Function.prototype.curry = function() {
    if (arguments.length < 1) {
        return this; //nothing to curry with - return function
    }
    var __method = this;
    var args = toArray(arguments);
    return function() {
        return __method.apply(this, args.concat([].slice.apply(null, arguments)));
    }
}

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