[GHC] #14812: Dot-Notation for Flipped Function Application

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#14812: Dot-Notation for Flipped Function Application
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        Reporter:  tepan             |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  feature request   |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.2.2
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Comment (by simonpj):

 There's plenty of historical discussion about this; wiki link in
 comment:11 is a good starting point.  Personally, I think that something
 like this would be very attractive for writing pipelines of computation.

 One particularly attractive possibility is using type inference to drive
 auto-complete and drop-down menus of possibilities.  IDEs for OO languages
 use this to tremendous effect.

 There's an old paper
 [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.146.5411 The
 power is in the dot] which I have not reviewed recently but remember
 enjoying some years ago.

 Definitely a GHC-proposal suggestion though.

 It would surely be controversial.

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