Proposal: Dot as Postfix Function Apply

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Jeremy  <voldermort at hotmail.com> writes:

> The idea is that instead of
> (title person) ++ " " ++ (firstName person) ++ " " ++ (lastName person)

> we could have

> person.title ++ " " ++ person.firstName ++ " " ++ person.lastName

-1.  "." means composition, not application.

Is there a reason you can't use another operator name, as lens did with ^.?

    person^.title ++ " " ++ person^.firstName ++ " " ++ person^.lastName

John