Proposal: Dot as Postfix Function Apply

Jeremy voldermort at hotmail.com
Wed Nov 4 19:42:53 UTC 2015


Edward Kmett-2 wrote
> Just.Just already doesn't parse as you'd expect due to its double-life.
> Giving it a third job breaks every f.g out there in user code and actively
> worsens systems that already exist for this purpose that compose better.

The proposal actually removes .'s ambiguity by defining syntactically
whether it's an operator (surrounded by spaces) or namespace/postfix
(without spaces).

It will only break existing code if you turn on the extension for it.



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