I like partial application like in Standard ML, but it also means, that one must be very careful with the order of arguments, unless we get a variant of partial

I like partial application like in Standard ML, but it also means, that one must be very careful with the order of arguments, unless we get a variant of partial application, that is flexible enough to let you specify which arguments you want to provide, instead of always assuming the first n arguments. I use "cut" for this in Scheme. Threading/Pipelines are still very useful though and can shorten things and make them very readable.