[Haskell-cafe] Operator precedence

[David Menendez]

On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Daniel Díaz <danieldiaz at asofilak.es> wrote:
>
> El Lun, 6 de Septiembre de 2010, 7:50 pm, David Menendez escribió:
>> Operators default to infixl 9 unless specified otherwise,
>> so no infix declaration is needed.
>
> Why there is a default infix? Why it is 9?

That's what the Haskell Report says: "Any operator lacking a fixity
declaration is assumed to be infixl 9" (section 4.4.2).

Any function with at least two arguments can be used as an operator,
so there has to be a default. Presumably, infixl 9 was considered the
least surprising.

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Dave Menendez <dave at zednenem.com>
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