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

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

"Brian Hulley" <brianh at metamilk.com> writes:

> My final suggestion if anyone is interested is as follows:
>
> 1) Use ":" for types
> 2) Use "," instead of ";" in the block syntax so that all brace blocks
> can be replaced by layout if desired (including record blocks)
> 3) Use ";" for list cons. ";" is already used for forming lists in
> natural language, and has the added advantage that (on my keyboard at
> least) you don't even need to press the shift key! ;-)

My language uses \ for cons, and ? for lambda.

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