The Haskell Report

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

You may be right, but the Report is neither confusing nor inconsistent
on this point, I think.  So I don't think it falls into the class of
things
that we can change for H98.

You'll just have to add parens!

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Ch. A. Herrmann [mailto:herrmann@infosun.fmi.uni-passau.de]=20
| Sent: 23 July 2001 15:04
| To: haskell@haskell.org
| Subject: The Haskell Report
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| Hi Haskellers,
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| because I recognized that some people are discussing
| the Haskell report, I'd like to point out a problem
| concerning the operator precedences.
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| At precedence level 9, there are the left associative
| operator (!!) and the right associative operator (.),
| but combining both directions doesn't make sense neither for me ..
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| .. nor for ghci:=20
|    > gs !! i . f
|    > cannot mix `(!!)' [infixl 9] and `(.)' [infixr 9] in the=20
| same infix expression
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| It appears sensible for me that (!!) associates to the
| left and I suppose that there is a strong requirement
| for (.), which is associative anyway (f.g).h =3D f.(g.h),=20
| to associate to the right, due to efficiency reasons.
| However, what's the problem with introducing a precedence=20
| level 10 and move (!!) upto it?
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| Cheers
| Christoph
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