On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 07:12:20PM -0600, Tim Peters wrote: > Part of it, but I believe it's more following prior art, like Haskell's take: > > http://zvon.org/other/haskell/Outputprelude/take_f.html > > In that language, the case for putting the count first is > overwhelming: all functions in Haskell take a single argument, and > currying is ubiquitous. [ snip details ]
Oh nice! I should remember the usefulness of currying and functools.partial when designing function signatures. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/HR3MGI4OMVMGZFOFKHSIEIUCFPKNZFLN/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
