[Haskell-beginners] Question about precedence

[Darren Grant]

I think that since infix notation always takes two parameters, the compiler
handles parameter swapping to match the unfilled argument for convenience.
Not sure where this would be described in a spec though.

Cheers,
Darren



On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Marc Gorenstein
<marc.gorenstein at gmail.com>wrote:

> What sort of beast is ( / 8) in Haskell? It looks like it is a function
> that divides a number by 8.
>
> *Main> ( / 8 ) 4
> 0.5
>
> *Main> let a = ( / 8 )
> *Main> a 4
> 0.5
>
> -- Yup that works.
>
> Does ( / 8 )  turn into a function that takes an argument, so that the
> "left" input to the /, becomes a right input to the function?
> What  precedence rule  is being followed here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marc
>
>
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