[Haskell-cafe] Records (was Re: [Haskell] Improvements to GHC)

[Cale Gibbard]

Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

>Personally I think that the dot is way to good of a symbol to be
>"wasted" on function composition. I mean, how often do you really use
>function composition in a way which doesn't obfuscate your code? I use
>($) way more often than (.). Some people do use it more often than I

Function composition is a very important and fundamental operation on
functions, and I use it all the time. Haskell is supposed to be a
functional language. I'd vote against any motion to make it less
convenient. Of course, it really shouldn't be (.) but a small circle
centred on the line, which isn't on ordinary keyboards. (°) looks
closer, but is much less convenient to type. (I need to type
"<Compose> 0 ^" in order to get that character.) Spelling it as (.)
really is the best easy-to-type approximation.

 - Cale