Proposal: Add (&) to Data.Function
Henning Thielemann
lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Tue Nov 20 21:14:41 CET 2012
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Yitzchak Gale 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.
Functional metapost called it (#). But for me (>>>) is ok. It is even more
descriptive than (&).
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