[Haskell-beginners] Re: map question

[Will Ness]

Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> `This` syntax is used to make functions work infix, whereas operators
> already are infix. For this reason, it wouldn't make much sense to use
> `this` syntax (what's that called anyways?) on an operator.

It would be a no-op in general, so nobody would use it.

> `(-)` would in some sense be the same thing as just "-", since () is
> used to make operators prefix and `` is used to make functions infix.

exactly, just that it would be a _binary_ (-) .