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

[ajb at spamcop.net]

G'day all.

Quoting Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de>:

> 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".

Me neither, but there is a (semi-weak) argument for arbitrary precedences.

Cheers,
Andrew Bromage