Re: [Haskell-cafe] Functions from Data.Hashtable

wren ng thornton writes:

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Data.HashTable.lookup :: HashTable key val -> key -> IO (Maybe val) Data.Map.lookup :: Ord key => key -> Map key val -> Maybe val

I'd guess it's due more to antiquity than to intention.

I am fairly sure that FiniteMap, which preceeded Data.Map, had the same parameter order as HashTable. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants