[Haskell-beginners] Good style on "." and "$" pipeline?

[David Johnson]

"agglutinative" That is one crazy word.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:34 PM, koomi <koomi at hackerspace-bamberg.de>wrote:
>
>> On 21.08.2012 22:43, Brent Yorgey wrote:
>> > Having more than one $, like (f1 $ f2 $ fn $ arg), is frowned upon.
>> Care to explain why this is considered bad? I don't see anything wrong
>> with this.
>>
>
> Experientially, we see it a lot in #xmonad from beginners combining stuff
> together with a certain amont of cargo-culting (being beginners and usually
> quite unfamiliar with Haskell).
>
> I've been moving toward using ($) to separate logical "phrases" and (.)
> within the phrases, to make it easier to see which things go with which.
>  Since layoutHook is rather agglutinative, this helps a lot.
>
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