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

[Jon Fairbairn]

David Feuer <david.feuer at gmail.com> writes:

> I don't know the historical answer, but I think it's because the true
> fixity can't be expressed in Haskell.

No, the historical answer is that with lazy evaluation the
shortcutting happens in the expected order. We did think about
that.

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Jón Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk