[Haskell-cafe] Line noise

[wren ng thornton]

Brian Hurt wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, wren ng thornton wrote:
> 
> > Even with functionalists ---of the OCaml and SML ilk--- this use of 
> > spaces can be confusing if noone explains that function application 
> > binds tighter than all operators.
> 
> Bwuh?  Ocaml programmers certainly know that application binds tighter 
> than operators.  And as:

Not being of either ilk, perhaps I mis-relayed the confusions of a 
friend recently converted to Haskell :)

The issue I was raising had not so much to do with un/currying of 
functions but rather whether something like "foo bar %^& baz" means 
"(foo bar) %^& baz" or "foo (bar %^& baz)".

I believe this was voiced as an SML issue more than an OCaml issue, 
though honestly I don't know enough of the differences to distinguish 
them. Before I mentioned that function/prefix application always binds 
tighter than operator/infix application, he was using many redundant 
parentheses, thanks to defensive programming against whichever dialect 
was at fault.

-- 
Live well,
~wren