[Haskell-cafe] Parse text difficulty

[Josef Svenningsson]

On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:18:12 -0500, Robert Dockins
<robdockins at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>  > And I thought that most programmers used "zipWith", which has to be
>  > prefix.
> 
> Is this true?  Can you not use backticks on a partially applied
> function?  If so, it seems like such a thing would be pretty useful
> (although I've never actually had occasion to need it, so....)  I'll dig
> out the report and check sometime, but does anyone know for sure that
> the following wouldn't work?
> 
> [1..5] `zipWith (+)` [7..]
> 
It is possible to emulate this behaviour with some operator trickery. See:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2002-July/003215.html

/Josef