[Haskell-cafe] Distributing monadic(?) functions across dyadic functions

[tpledger at ihug.co.nz]

Nils Anders Danielsson wrote:
> A function like this has been suggested for the
> standard libraries a couple of times before.
> Someone suggested the name "on", which I quite
> like:
>
>   (*) `on` f = \x y -> f x * f y


Thanks!  I always wanted to be someone.  :-)

Here's the link.

http://www.haskell.org//pipermail/haskell-cafe/2004-December/007917.html

- Tom