Composition operator [was: Re: Records in Haskell]

[Malcolm Wallace]

On 12 Jan 2012, at 18:41, Evan Laforge wrote:

>>> Unicode dot (∘) would be optimal, since that's what it's for.
>> 
>> Is ∘ (U+2218 RING OPERATOR)* in Prelude yet? We should propose that.**
> 
> However, changing the composition operator from (.) will involve huge
> amounts of changes to source code. 

Indeed.  It strikes me that it should be the _new_ feature that takes the new syntax, rather than stealing the old syntax and disrupting all the existing code that happily uses . for function composition.

So, who is up for proposing centred dot as the new record-field syntax?

Regards,
    Malcolm