Proposal: Add (&) to Data.Function

[Andreas Abel]

On 20.11.2012 18:25, Johan Tibell wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Dan Burton <danburton.email at gmail.com
> <mailto:danburton.email at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I agree that Haskell should provide this idiom. I find & to be a
>     strange name for it, but to be honest, it's no stranger than $ so I
>     say go for it. I would suggest | to mimic the unix pipe, but this
>     obviously clashes with Haskell guard syntax. I think |> is a
>     reasonable name, but Data.Sequence has already claimed it.
>
>
> I also like |> for the color of this shed, as there's prior art for it.
>
>  > but Data.Sequence has already claimed it.
>
> We should use namespaces for these things instead of trying to come up
> with globally unique names (be they symbols). Trying to be globally
> unique doesn't scale to large codebases and eventually gives =>@@@@#$>. ;)

+1


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