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

[Brian Hulley]

tpledger at ihug.co.nz wrote:
> David House wrote:
>> 
>> You can fake this:
>> 
>> (-!) = ($)
>> (!-) = flip ($)
>> 
>> foo -! liftM2 (,) !- bar
> 
> Was anyone in that brainstorm thinking of Chung-chieh Shan's
> -: and :-
> (http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2002-July/003215.html)
> or was the similarity just a really cool coincidence?

I hope no-one seriously thinks the above syntax is clearer than:

    liftM2 (,) foo bar

Brian.
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