On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In particular, there is one small notational point that he insisted on > towards the end of his career (and life) viz. where traditional > mathematicians write *f(x) *and functional programmers write *f x*, he > would write *f.x* , ie he showed apply with a '.' > > In trying to understand his intentions, I wrote the following > 'thought-dialogue' [as in thought-experiment :-) ] > http://www.the-magus.in/Publications/ewd.pdf > I didn't read all of it, but near the end when "EWD" made the point about how function application should be a first-class operator and not mere whitespace, "Haskeller" missed a golden opportunity to segue into applicative functors. -- Kim-Ee
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