Proposal: Add (&) to Data.Function

[John Lato]

>
> From: David Menendez <dave at zednenem.com>
>
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Yitzchak Gale <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 ($) or (.). That
> >  naturally expresses the idea of the combinators as operations being
> >  applied in the given order.
> >
>
> I think the bar should be pretty high before we add a third way to write
> function application to base. How common is this? Common among whom? Why
> can't the existing idioms of (.) and ($) work just as well?
>

I guardedly agree with Dave Menendez.  There are a very limited number of
convenient 1-character operators available, and I'm not certain that
function application should take up 3 of them.

On the other hand, this is a common enough idiom to have emerged in both
diagrams and lens at least.

(I'm not taking a position at this time)

John L.
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