[Haskell-beginners] How do you pronounce these operators?

Tony Morris tonymorris at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 01:32:20 UTC 2014


On 04/04/14 03:28, Kim-Ee Yeoh wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:08 AM, John M. Dlugosz
> <ngnr63q02 at sneakemail.com <mailto:ngnr63q02 at sneakemail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm having some difficult reading because I don't have "names" for
>     many of the operators, such as <*>.  I know that >>= is pronounced
>     "bind", but what about the others?  Is there some common
>     consensus, a list somewhere, or at least the proper mathematical
>     names to serve as a starting point?
>
>
> Did you try a search? There are links out there.
>
> But it's true that a search will only get you so far. I think what we
> don't have enough is idiomatic English coupled to idiomatic Haskell.
>
> It's like a proof/program of a proposition in Euclidean geometry. One
> just gets it visually and doesn't really bother with verbalizing on
> the tongue.
>
> Provide a code fragment here, and folks will help you with it.
>
> -- Kim-Ee
>
>
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I have heard the following for (<*>)

* angle butt
* spaceship
* apply
* ap
* angry eye


-- 
Tony Morris
http://tmorris.net/

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