Proposal: flipped fmap in base (again)

[Elliot Cameron]

Could we instead have "ffor" which can be used prefix or infix and avoids
the operator soup problem?

On Feb 18, 2017 3:24 PM, "Edward Kmett" <ekmett at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm weakly +1 on this proposal. In my experience
>
> foo <&> \x -> ...
>
> works out as a nice idiom because it avoids having to parenthesize the
> lambda unlike the usual <$> convention.
>
> For me, I can just make lens re-export the Data.Functor version on newer
> GHCs.
>
> -Edward
>
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Siddhanathan Shanmugam <
> siddhanathan+eml at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > For completeness, your proposal should also specify from which
>> > module this will be exported and what the fixity and precedence will be.
>>
>> module Data.Functor, infixl 1, and should not be in prelude.
>>
>> > Those arguments seems to me as compelling today as they were 7
>> > years ago, what has changed meanwhile?
>>
>> The addition of (&) in base: https://mail.haskell.org
>> /pipermail/libraries/2013-October/021423.html
>>
>>
>> -- Sid
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 4:22 AM, Andreas Abel <abela at chalmers.se> wrote:
>>
>>> +1 from me.  --Andreas
>>>
>>> On 18.02.2017 12:01, John Wiegley wrote:
>>>
>>>> "BvD" == Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>> BvD> I'm still in favour of this so a +1 from me.
>>>>
>>>> +1 from me too.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>>
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>>>
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>>
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