[ghc-steering-committee] Record syntax

Tue Jan 7 11:38:46 UTC 2020

> On Jan 7, 2020, at 11:29 AM, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-steering-committee <ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org> wrote:
> 
> It’s a postfix operator, binding less tightly than function application, but more tightly than any infix operator. 

I want to understand this a bit better. Looking at your examples, I would phrase it thusly:

> It's a postfix operator, with the same precedence and same (left-)associativity as function application.

Does this agree with your idea? Indeed, I can't quite figure out what your text would mean.

Richard
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