[Haskell-cafe] Functions from Data.Hashtable

[Ketil Malde]

wren ng thornton <wren at freegeek.org> writes:

>> 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
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