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

[Edward Kmett]

I agree. This is not going into Prelude.

-Edward

On Friday, April 18, 2014, Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wallace at me.com> wrote:

>
> On 17 Apr 2014, at 20:20, Edward Kmett wrote:
>
> > After the last time this made the rounds, this went to the core
> libraries committee.
> >
> > Consensus was achieved to add it as an infixl 1 & operator to
> Data.Function, but not to Prelude,so we just need to put in the patch and
> you'll see it in GHC 7.10.
>
>
> I would like to strongly oppose the theft of the (&) operator from general
> use.  The proposal to put it in Data.Function, such that you need to know
> you are importing it, is OK, but it should never go into the Prelude.
>
> My general position is that there are very few single-character operator
> names left for ordinary programmers to use locally in their code.  Given we
> now have more than twenty years usage of Haskell, I think it is pretty
> likely that people have made use of the flexibility to define their own
> operators for code that will never be widely shared.  Taking away those
> operators from users, to become "standard", will only break old code.
>
> As a single datapoint, I grepped for uses of the & operator in our
> codebase at work, and found ~28,000 LoC where it is used.
>
> Regards,
>     Malcolm
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