On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Stephen Bloch <sbl...@adelphi.edu> wrote: > > 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....
IMO, consistency with other Racket functions trumps this. By a lot. Robby _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
