lemming:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Don Stewart wrote:
lemming:
In contrast to Data.Bits it should use the proper parameter order, e.g. rotateBytes :: Int -> a -> a
Proper in the Okasaki sense?
Unfortunately I don't know what Okasaki's sense is, but I refered to this one: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Parameter_order
You made me go and dig through the archives! http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/3650/ http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/3654/ In response to questions about why the convention of putting the data structure as the last argument... This style supports multiple operations nicely, especially with combined with the $ operator. For example, to insert 3 elements into a set, you can say insert 1 $ insert 2 $ insert 3 $ someSet (the last $ is optional). With the other argument ordering, you would say insert (insert (insert someSet 3) 2) 1 See the entire thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/3622/focus=3650 from 2005. -- Don