[Haskell-cafe] Parse text difficulty

[Robert Dockins]

 > And I thought that most programmers used "zipWith", which has to be
 > prefix.

Is this true?  Can you not use backticks on a partially applied 
function?  If so, it seems like such a thing would be pretty useful 
(although I've never actually had occasion to need it, so....)  I'll dig 
out the report and check sometime, but does anyone know for sure that 
the following wouldn't work?

[1..5] `zipWith (+)` [7..]