On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Will Ness <will_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Gregory Propf <gregorypropf <at> yahoo.com> writes: > >> >> >> I actually meant it as sort of a joke but maybe it's not after all. > > Seriously though, using anything non-ASCII in source code is a bad idea, > because there are lots of fonts and editors in the world. > > It seems natural to me to have (`-`2) stand for (flip (-) 2), if only that > would be made legal syntax, just as (`foldl`0) stands for (flip (foldl) 0).
Or you could use the "subtract" function. >>> map (subtract 2) [3,4,5] [1,2,3] I don't think syntax sugar is worth it in this case. Luke _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
