[Haskell-cafe] Is 'flip' really necessary?

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 7/26/10 17:53 , aditya siram wrote:
> It seems confusing to alias a function without adding any functionality just
> to make things slightly easier to read. Instead wouldn't it be better if
> this idiom were documented on haskell.org <http://haskell.org>?

And yet much of Applicative is exactly that.  (It even started out being
called "idioms".)

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