[Haskell-cafe] Those damned parentheses
Yitzchak Gale
gale at sefer.org
Tue May 10 10:05:18 CEST 2011
Andrew Butterfield wrote:
>> Why not indeed ?
Roel van Dijk wrote:
> import Control.Category ( (>>>) )
> f = Main.id >>> show >>> (++ " - message received") >>> putStrLn
Indeed, I agree. I sometimes do that, too, when I want to
emphasize the idea of "applying tools one after the other".
But most often I just use traditional "function composition"
notation. That reminds us of the connection with mathematical
functions. It also raises less eyebrows when other people read
my code and see
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