[Haskell-cafe] Function Precedence

[Janis Voigtlaender]

PR Stanley wrote:
> Hi
> If
> f x = x
> and
> g y = y
> then
> f g x
> returns an error because f takes only one argument. Why can't we have 
> function application implemented outwardly (inside-out).

Why should it be so?

> So
> f g x would be applied with
> gx first followed by its return value passed to f instead of putting g x 
> in brackets.

You can get the same behavior with

  f . g $ x

if you mislike brackets.

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