Proposal: Add (&) to Data.Function

[Andreas Abel]

On 20.11.2012 18:19, Dan Burton wrote:
> I think |> is a reasonable name, but
> Data.Sequence has already claimed it.

Well, disown Data.Sequence.  Application is more important than some 
data type.

Cheers,
Andreas

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Yitzchak Gale <gale at sefer.org
> <mailto:gale at sefer.org>> wrote:
>  >
>  >  It is a common idiom to write a sequence of composed combinators in
>  >  reverse order to the way they would be written with ($) or (.). That
>  >  naturally expresses the idea of the combinators as operations being
>  >  applied in the given order.
>  >
>  >  This comes up so often, and is commonly used so many times in a single
>  >  expression, that Control.Arrow.>>> is far too wordy, and even a two-
>  >  character operator is awkward.
>  >
>  >  Surprisingly, until recently the operator (&) was still not used in any
>  >  of the popular libraries, and its name naturally expresses the idea
> we are
>  >  looking for. This operator has now been defined in the lens package. We
>  >  hereby propose to move it to its natural home for more general use,
>  >  Data.Function.
>  >
>  >  As in the lens package, we define the operator as a flipped version of
>  >  ($), but with slightly higher precedence for better interaction with
>  >  ($), and with left associativity. This definition has already proven
>  >  useful and convenient even in the presence of the large  and varied
> corpus
>  >  of combinators and operators in the lens package. (There it was formerly
>  >  known as (%), but that clashed with the usual meaning of (%) from
>  >  Data.Ratio.)
>  >
>  >  infixl 1 &
>  >  (&) :: a -> (a -> b) -> b
>  >  a & f = f a
>  >  {-# INLINE (&) #-}
>  >
>  > Discussion period: 2 weeks
>  >
>  > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7434
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  > Yitz
>  >
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