[Haskell-cafe] why can't you surround (+) in backticks and have it be infix?

[tphyahoo]

"Issues: In Haskell, any function or constructor can be enclosed in backticks
and then used as an infix operator. "

from http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~mfn/hacle/issues/node2.html

But this seems to be contradicted by...

from #haskell

-- 09:19 < tphyahoo> >  let func = (+) in 1 `func` 2
-- 09:19 < lambdabot>  3
-- 09:20 < tphyahoo> but ......
-- 09:20 < tphyahoo> 1 `(+)` 2
-- 09:20 < tphyahoo> > 1 `(+)` 2
-- 09:20 < lambdabot>  Parse error

(+) is a function, is it not?

Where's the rub?

thomas.
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