[Haskell-cafe] Why is $ right associative instead ofleftassociative?

[Paul Hudak]

Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> LA> In my opinion all the special syntactic sugar for lists should go
> LA> away.  I don't think lists are special enough to motivate it.
> 
> i have proposal (not for Haskell', of course) of using ":" and "[]"
> syntax for general notion of traversable collections:

Minor point, perhaps, but I should mention that : is not special syntax 
-- it is a perfectly valid infix constructor.  [] and all its variants, 
however, are special syntax.

   -Paul