[Haskell-cafe] Formatting function types

[Chung-chieh Shan]

Lauri Alanko <la at iki.fi> wrote in article <20101230133355.GB323 at melkinpaasi.cs.helsinki.fi> in gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe:
> The following is much clearer:
> 
> openTempFile :: 
>     FilePath ->
>     String ->
>     IO (FilePath, Handle)    
> 
> (Possibly with the arrows aligned.)
> 
> I can't understand how the "arrows first" convention still lingers so
> strongly when it is (to me) so obviously wrong and misleading.

What about chains of $ in terms?  (Both -> in types and $ in terms
associate to the right.  What about + - * / in terms, which associate to
the left?)

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