new keyword: infixlr?

[Lennart Augustsson]

I don't think a syntactic property (how operators are parsed) should
be mixed up with a semantic property (being associative).
At least not in Haskell.

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:51 PM, S. Doaitse Swierstra <doaitse at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
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> Currently Haskell has infix, infixl and infixr operators. I see a use for infixlr as well. This indicates that the implemtation may assume the operator to be associative, and thus has the freedom to "balance" an expression containing several operator occurrences.
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> The reason that I bring up this is that in a new combinator I have added to my parser library (the <||> in Text.ParserCombinators.UU.Derived) internally uses cartesian products, which are being constructed and updated. If the compiler had the right to interpret  the expressions a <||> b <||>c <||> d  as e.g. (a <||> b) <||> (c <||> d) then the updating time for would go down from O(n) to O(log n).
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> I admit it is probably a minor point, but given the increased use of "type level" programming, and the use of cartesian products to keep "lists of values of a different type", I can also see many good uses for this.
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> Any comments?
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> Doaitse
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