Proposal: Add (&) to Data.Function

Ganesh Sittampalam ganesh at earth.li
Sat Nov 24 10:38:39 CET 2012


On 20/11/2012 16:59, Yitzchak Gale wrote:

>  infixl 1 &
>  (&) :: a -> (a -> b) -> b
>  a & f = f a
>  {-# INLINE (&) #-}
> 
> Discussion period: 2 weeks 
> 
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7434

-1 for &, for me it's too unintuitive and different from any other language.

I'd be +1 for |> but perhaps that's just because I do a lot of F#. I'd
be ok with # too but perhaps MagicHash is an obstacle there.

Ganesh




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