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

[Hans Höglund]

> Can we argue about the fixity for (<&>)? I've always it as infixl 4, to mix it in with other applicative operators, e.g.:
> 
> (:) <$> fx <*> fl
> 
> becomes
> 
> fx <&> (:) <*> fl

I agree, this seems to be a mistake in lens.


> Last I checked,
> 
> (&) = flip ($)
> 
> is both shorter to type, and more explicit than:
> 
> import Control.Apply.Reverse
> 
>   - Clark
> 

Well the purpose here is to propose a standard name and fixity, not to save keystrokes.

When a lot of libraries start to define a (trivial) thing under different names, that to me is a good indication that it should be in the standard library. It is a matter of keeping the signal-to-noise ratio large, which greatly helps when reading unfamiliar code.

Hans
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