[Haskell-beginners] types, parentheses, application, composition

[Kim-Ee Yeoh]

On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Christopher Howard <
christopher.howard at frigidcode.com> wrote:

> Beautiful explanation. The clouds are starting to clear. In particular,
> previously I did not understand that 1) parentheses are in all types but
> are omitted for readability when possible, and 2) when an argument is
> supplied to a function it unifies the supplied parameter type with the
> argument type. Knowing this makes a huge difference in looking at these
> transformations.
>

(1) parens are everywhere, some of them you don't see because of default
associativity
(2) type-inferencing unification is utterly opaque and mysterious


-- Kim-Ee


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