[Haskell-beginners] $= operator

[Alexander Dunlap]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Nathan Holden <nathanmholden at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was reading Eleara examples out of Hackage, and I kept noticing lines like
> this:
>
>>   t <- get GLFW.time
>>   GLFW.time $= 0
>
> Most of the rest of it made more-or-less sense (I mean, there IS a reason
> I'm still asking questions to beginners!) but I couldn't seem to find
> anything about it on my usual reference sources, and it's uses don't make
> that much sense to me.
>
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That's not an Elerea operator; that's from OpenGL. Roughly speaking,
it means "set" - change the value of a setting or variable of some
sort.

I'm also working on familiarizing myself with FRP and Elerea, so good luck!

Alex