Proposal: Dot as Postfix Function Apply

[David Feuer]

print (name person)
person.^name & print

Sorry, I'm not seeing the disaster yet.
On Nov 4, 2015 2:40 PM, "Harry ." <voldermort at hotmail.com> wrote:

> When you consider that every other programming language in common use (and
> almost every language not in common use as well) allows you to write:
>
> print person.name
>
> while Haskell requires something like:
>
> print (person & name) or
>
> print $ person.^name
>
> and even that after importing a third-party library or defining it
> yourself, you begin to understand why beginners think that Haskell looks
> more like Japanese emoticons than programming.
>
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