On Jun 8, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> ... the
> justification for the argument order in Haskell is not laziness but
> its implicit currying -- so of course it shouldn't be a reason to make
> lazy racket follow it.]

Another justification for Haskell's argument order is compatibility with 
English: "take 5 primes" makes a lot more sense than "take primes 5".  It could 
be argued that compatibility with English is even more important than 
compatibility with Clojure, or Haskell, or SRFI/1, or racket/typed....


Stephen Bloch
[email protected]


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