[Haskell-cafe] Proposal: Infix expression keyword: -XInfixExpressions

[Clinton Mead]

"infix" for two or more arguments is pretty much just "foldl1".


On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:51 AM, Christopher Done <chrisdone at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ahoy,
>
> The idiom discussion brought back to mind a general problem (well, for
> me) in Haskell syntax which is there is no syntactic sugar for
> interspersing operators to many arguments.
>
> Regarding a solution for this, I wrote up a wee proposal here:
> https://gist.github.com/chrisdone/d9d33e4770a2fef19ad1
>
> If I go ahead and implement this in GHC as -XInfixExpressions or
> something (better names welcome), would it be likely to be accepted? I
> could first do an implementation in haskell-src-exts to demonstrate
> the concept.
>
> Ciao!
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