[Haskell-cafe] Re: Current thinking on CompositionAsDot issue in haskell prime?

Bas van Dijk v.dijk.bas at gmail.com
Fri Oct 29 20:41:10 EDT 2010


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Ben Millwood <haskell at benmachine.co.uk> wrote:
> Personally I think function composition is what Haskell is all about
> and it is absolutely essential that the syntax for it be lightweight.
> If we think using . as qualification as well as composition is
> confusing, I'm much more inclined to say using it as qualification was
> a mistake.

Agreed. However for function composition I often use ∘ from:

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base-unicode-symbols/0.2.1.1/doc/html/Data-Function-Unicode.html

Bas


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