patch applied (haskell-prime-status): add ""Make $ left associative, like application"

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Wed Apr 23 18:43:05 EDT 2008


On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:21:26AM +0200, Niklas Broberg wrote:
> > I'm very suspicious about the power/weight ratio of this change.
> >  Normally, for simple value-level stuff like this, provide both options:
> >
> >     mapM / forM. =<< >>=
> >
> >  So how about, rather than break things, just provide an alternative to ($).
> 
> Alright, I'm not sure what the proper channel for doing this is,

Please see
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library_submissions

> f $$ x = f x

Note that this clashes with Text.PrettyPrint (which doesn't necessarily
mean it shouldn't be used anyway).


Thanks
Ian



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