[Haskell-cafe] Numeric vs. relative precedences of infix operators

[Henning Thielemann]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 ajb at spamcop.net wrote:

> G'day all.
>
> Quoting karczma at info.unicaen.fr:
>
> > "Widely accepted" is a widely accepted relativism...
> > I am also annoyed by the precedences 0,1,2, ...,9, etc.
> >
> > Why not 10, 20, 30,... ??
>
> I _think_ we had this back around Haskell 1.1 (which I never used, but
> early Gofers also had it).  Moreover, operators could also have arbitrary
> "fixity" (prefix, infix, postfix).
>
> I'm not sure why this feature was dropped,

Because of readability I don't plead for arbitrary "fixities", I think the
current solution of infix operators in Haskell is enough. There is really
no advantage of "n !" over "faculty n".