"Elvis" operator (?:) as a reverse infix form of "fromMaybe"

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Edward Kmett <ekmett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seen in code without prior knowledge `fromMaybe` can have its meaning
> intuited. (?:) on the other hand comes across as gratuitous.
>

Worse, if you're at all familiar with C or languages which borrowed its
ternary operator, your expectation is that it will be related to Bool, not
Maybe a. (And no, I wouldn't recommend it for that either; the next
question is figuring out how the then and else legs are distinguished...
and I don't consider the ternary operator particularly readable anyway.)

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