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

[Mihai Maruseac]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Imants Cekusins <imantc at gmail.com> wrote:
> would it be a bad taste to overload ;?

Won't it create ambiguity problems like the following?

ghci> do { putStr "Hello, the answer is "; print $ 40 + 2 }

being changed into the invalid

ghci> do { putStr "Hello, the answer is "; print ; 40 + 2 }

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