Proposal: Add (&) to Data.Function

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com> writes:

> We had switched to % from (|>) to be consistent with the other (+=) (*=)
> operators where (%=) was being read as 'mod-equals' as a bit of a pun, and
> could be seen as the application of the % operator to the target. 

Yes, a strong positive in favor of & of |> is that it allows the lens library
to offer the highly useful variants &= and &~, which have obvious (and
related) meanings to someone using lens.  |>= and |>~ would get a bit awkward
in comparison.

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