Proposal: Add (&) to Data.Function

Michael Sloan mgsloan at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 19:17:12 CET 2012


(#) is also used by the diagrams library, mainly for using functions as if
they were "attributes".

In the context of lens, this is discussed a bit here:
https://github.com/ekmett/lens/issues/17


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Stephen Tetley <stephen.tetley at gmail.com>wrote:

> "Haskell" called this operator (#) about 12 years ago - see Peter
> Thiemann's WASH and Eric Meijer and colleagues MS Agent scripting.
>
> I'd much prefer (#) if it didn't interfere with GHC's magic hash, I
> suspect the above authors were using Hugs...
>
> On 20 November 2012 17:19, Dan Burton <danburton.email at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just to bring up some prior art, from what I've heard, F# calls this |>.
>
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