Flipped function application

[Carter Schonwald]

as long as the operator doesn't sneak into  prelude (and thus consuming
namespace for everyone), i don't really care what its called (or if we get
it.)


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones
<simonpj at microsoft.com>wrote:

> I quite like that.  ($$), that is.  Better than (&)
>
> Simon
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Libraries [mailto:libraries-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of
> | Twan van Laarhoven
> | Sent: 10 October 2013 18:20
> | To: libraries at haskell.org
> | Subject: Re: Flipped function application
> |
> | On 10/10/13 16:16, David Menendez wrote:
> | > we don't need new name suggestions at this point, but:
> | >
> | > Consider <**> :: f a -> f (a -> b) -> f b.
> | >
> | > That suggests <$$> :: f a -> (a -> b) -> f b by analogy, so maybe $$
> | :: a -> (a
> | > -> b) -> b? This avoids the downsides of & while maybe being less
> | ugly to
> | > combine with things than |>. Also, it looks like $, suggesting
> | they're related.
> | >
> |
> | As a data point: I have in fact used <$$> as (flip fmap) before, with
> | this exact
> | reasoning.
> |
> |
> |
> | Twan
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