On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM, namekuseijin <namekusei...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've not been following Haskell too much and am completely lost when > reading code like that. I understand (+1), : and ! but what the hell > are . and $ for?
Function composition and lowest-precedence function application, respectively. > And that weird monad symbol in the Haskell logo is not even used! >>= > Not quite the worst example of such line noise much of Haskell > idiomatic code uses nowadays, though. That's the monadic bind operator. As far as sugar, I think you've got it backwards — the "do" syntax is sugar for >>= and friends. :-) _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
