[Haskell-cafe] Syntax proposal for "reverse apply"/"pipeline apply" (flip ($))

Alexey Muranov alexey.muranov at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 08:48:35 UTC 2014


On 17 avr. 2014, at 03:41, Dan Burton <danburton.email at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting. I've never seen it proposed as right-associative before.

Yes, maybe it was a bad idea after all.  I just thought that the caret/exponentiation symbol may fit well the semantics, but unfortunately with the right associativity it would not allow to get rid of parentheses in common use, and with left associatifity it would not look like exponentiation.

Alexey.



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