[Haskell-cafe] Language complexity & beginners (Was: New type of ($) operator in GHC 8.0 is problematic)

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 02/08/2016 12:33 PM, Imants Cekusins wrote:
> would
> f 1 ; 2 + 3
> 
> look ok instead of
> f 1 $ 2 + 3
> 
> ?
> 
> the semicolon would be part of syntax, not something with a type
> the intuition is: pause application until the rest is applied

The semicolon is already appropriated sadly:

  ghci> do { putStr "Hello" ; putStrLn " world!"; }
  Hello world!