[racket-dev] foldl does a right fold?

On Jul 9, 2011, at 5:38 PM, Clark Grubb wrote:

> This seems to be a bug.  Here is the
> Racket behavior and Haskell behavior
> for comparison.

I believe what you're actually observing here is a difference in the order in which arguments are presented to the given function. E.G., try "cons".

John


> 
> ======================
> 
> $ racket
> Welcome to Racket v5.1.1.
>> (foldl - 0 '(1 2 3))
> 2
>> (foldr - 0 '(1 2 3))
> 2
> 
> ======================
> 
> $ ghci
> GHCi, version 6.10.4: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
> Prelude> foldl (-) 0 [1,2,3]
> -6
> Prelude> foldr (-) 0 [1,2,3]
> 2
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