[Haskell-beginners] annoying precedence of unary negate

[Kim-Ee Yeoh]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:59 AM, John M. Dlugosz
<ngnr63q02 at sneakemail.com>wrote:

>
>         [ ⋯ , translate (-50) 0 $ color green $ Circle 50 , ⋯]
>
> The parens around -50 are necessary.
> Is there a more elegant way to write it?
>
> Without the parens, I don't understand what the compiler sees it as, based
> on the error message.  How does the compiler parse it in that case?


Without the parens, minus would be parsed just like plus.

What would 'translate +50 0 blah' parse into?

-- Kim-Ee
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