[Haskell-cafe] Arrow combinator names

Brent Yorgey byorgey at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 14:01:20 EST 2008


On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Tom Davies <tgdavies at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are there generally accepted English language names for the arrow
> combinators?
>
> >>> compose?


Well, compose usually means something with type  (a c d -> a b c -> a b d),
but (>>>) has the dual type (a b c -> a c d -> a b d).  So it's really
"cocompose", which, of course, can be shortened to "mpose".

-Brent
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