[Python-ideas] Re: Argumenting in favor of first()

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