[Haskell-cafe] need help with understanding expression

[Albert Y. C. Lai]

On 12-11-16 02:10 AM, Daryoush Mehrtash wrote:
> I am having hard time understanding how removing the  outer parenthesis in
>
> (max.(+1)) 2 2
>
> to
>
> max.(+1) 2 2
>
> changes the meaning of expression.

I recommend http://bm380.user.srcf.net/prettyparsetree.cgi for 
discovering the correct parse.

Specifically,

   max.(+1) 2 2
=  { use uniform spacing to un-presume }
   max . (+1) 2 2
=  { . is lower than application }
   max . ((+1) 2 2)

etc.