[plt-scheme] What is the big deal about the currying of functions?

Grant Rettke wrote:
> I hear folks talk about how great is a language when it lets you curry
> functions, and that Scheme can do it too if you use macros.

They may have been talking about the `cut' srfi, which has a couple 
macros that allow curry-ish shorthand...

(require (lib "26.ss" "srfi"))

(cut f <> 1 <> 2) ==> (lambda (a b) (f a 1 b 2))

Rob