[Haskell-cafe] flip dot

[Brian Hulley]

On Thursday, September 28, 2006 1:33 AM, Greg Fitzgerald  wrote:

> Since there's talk of removal of the composition operator in 
> Haskell-prime,
> how about this:
>
> Instead of:
> foo = f . g
>
> you write:
> foo = .g.f
>
> A leading dot would mean, "apply all unnamed parameters
> to the function on the right".  A trailing dot would mean,
>"apply the result of the left to the function on the right".

Hi -

I think the H' proposal 
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/CompositionAsDot is an 
extremely bad idea. I really don't see why people have so many problems with 
the idea of just placing spaces before and after the dot when used as an 
operator, and in any case it's hard to think of a more important operator in 
a functional language than composition and a more fitting symbol for it than 
the simple dot.

Also, the syntax ".x" with no spaces between the '.' and the 'x' is needed 
for at least one record poposal (eg 
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2006-August/017466.html)

Regards, Brian.