[Haskell-cafe] Why are && and || right-associative?

[David Feuer]

I don't know the historical answer, but I think it's because the true
fixity can't be expressed in Haskell. As far as I can tell, there's no
operator with the same precedence as && or || that can be meaningfully
combined with it. But if these operators were defined just "infix", then
we'd have to write junk like x || (y || z). So instead we picked a
direction out of a bag and never had a reason to look back.

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019, 10:13 PM Richard Eisenberg <rae at richarde.dev> wrote:

> Hi café,
>
> Why are && and || in the Prelude right-associative? This contradicts my
> expectation and the way these work in other languages. That said, I can't
> think of any harm in it. This came up from a question asked by a student,
> and I have no idea why the design is this way.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
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