It's just a matter of syntx. After all it's rather common for people to want to do partial application to non-first argument: http://stackoverflow.com/questions

It's just a matter of syntx. After all it's rather common for people to want to do partial application to non-first argument: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4553405/how-can-i-bind-the-second-argument-in-a-function-but-not-the-first-in-an-elegan http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4553405/how-can-i-bind-th... So something like: add 1 _ or whatever (I'm not Haskeller so hard for me to judge what exact syntax) would do. And then add _ 1 would be easily possible too.