[Haskell-beginners] The dot operator.

[Kyle Murphy]

It's function composition.

(.) :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> (a -> c)

E.G. putStrLn . show $ 42

-R. Kyle Murphy
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On Feb 18, 2012 2:34 PM, "bahadýr altan" <doaltan at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello. I saw the dot "." operator in some Haskell codes, but I couldn't
> figure out what it does. I didn't see it in some books and tutorials and
> couldn't find an explanation on the Internet. Could you tell me what it
> does?
>
> Thanks:)
>
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