Proposal: Dot as Postfix Function Apply

[Alexander Berntsen]

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I see this come up every now and again, and now, like always, I'm at a
strong -1.

First of all, I don't like magic built-in stuff. And this certainly is
just that. It requires a higher precedence than you can possibly give
in regular code, and it is an exception to how all other operators
work with regards to requiring no spaces (note that this is different
to "not requiring spaces") -- this is reserved for module namespaces
per now.

Furthermore, it's confusingly similar to regular functional
composition. Second of all, we already have `x & f = f x`. Lastly,
(and I don't want to argue this one too strongly) it is another thing
like `return`, that makes imperative/OOP programmers confused.




Semi-related, I'd be interested in proposing the inclusion of a new
fixity level, 10, that was never used by base. *I* would certainly
find it useful every now and again.
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Alexander
alexander at plaimi.net
https://secure.plaimi.net/~alexander
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