[Haskell-cafe] Proposal: (.:) operator in base.

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Freitag, den 19.08.2016, 11:16 -0700 schrieb Theodore Lief Gannon:
> Well... there's that rather worrisome introductory paragraph of the
> Data.Composition docs, though:
> 
> "This module is for convenience and demonstrative purposes more than
> it is for providing actual value. I do not recommend that you rely on
> this module for performance-sensitive code. Because this module is
> not based on Prelude's (.), some chances at optimization might be 
> missed by your compiler."

I wonder if that is really something to worry about. Prelude’s (.) is
not special in any way:

-- | Function composition.
{-# INLINE (.) #-}
-- Make sure it has TWO args only on the left, so that it inlines
-- when applied to two functions, even if there is no final argument
(.)    :: (b -> c) -> (a -> b) -> a -> c
(.) f g = \x -> f (g x)

The INLINE pragma and the definition with the right arity could be used
in Data.Composition as well, and it would yield the same results.

Greetings,
Joachim

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