On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 16:21 -0700, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Chris Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:53:39 -0700, Simon Marlow wrote:
> >> Tue Apr 22 15:53:31 PDT 2008 Simon Marlow
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> * add ""Make $ left associative, like application"
> >
> > Is there a justification for this somewhere?
>
> I'm hoping someone will supply some. There seemed to be strong opinion
> on #haskell that this change should be made, but it might just have been
> a very vocal minority.
It true that (f $ g $ h $ x) might be nicer written (f . g . h $ x)
but I've always thought the point of $ is for things like
withSomeResource foo $
withSomeOtherThing bar $
yetAnotherBlockStructured thing $ ...
Does that work?
Or
withSomeResource foo $ \x ->
withSomeOtherThing bar $ \y ->
yetAnotherBlockStructured thing $ \z ->
Or does that case still work?
There must have been some justification for the original design or was
it just f $ g $ h $ x ?
Duncan
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