[Haskell-cafe] Those damned parentheses

[Andrew Butterfield]

On 10 May 2011, at 08:30, Yitzchak Gale wrote:

> 
> If I were to describe to someone in words what this
> function does, I would say something like: "Apply Main.id,
> turn it into a string, tack a message onto the end, and
> print it." So why not write it that way in Haskell?

Why not indeed ?

(-->) = flip (.)

f = Main.id --> show --> (++ " = message received") --> putStrLn

;-)


> 
> One of the nicest features of Haskell is that the
> combinator approach is often so natural.

:-) :-)

> 
> Regards,
> Yitz
> 
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