Different argument order for getting N-th element of Array, List or Seq

Question

Is there a good reason for a different argument order in functions getting N-th element of Array, List or Seq:

Array.get source index
List .nth source index
         


        

Answer 1

Since Pad and bytebuster answered your last question I will focus on the why part.

This is based my current knowledge and not historical facts.

Since F# derived from OCaml and OCaml has Array and List but not Seq and F# uses |> for natural pipelining and type checking and OCaml lacks the pipleline operator, the authors of F# made the switch for Seq. But obviously to be backward compatablie with OCaml they did not switch everything.