Cale Gibbard wrote:
Hello,
In keeping with my small but seemingly extremely controversial
suggestions for changes to the Prelude, here's a suggestion which I
think is elegant and worth considering for the Haskell' Prelude:
Rename fmap to map (like it was in Haskell 1.4), and define (.) as a
synonym for it.
One thing I fear (though that fear may be irrational) is that you get code that
looks like "(.) . ((.) . (.) .)". To me, and I expect to many people, map and
composition are different things, and used in different ways. If both are
written as a dot it will take extra mental effort to decipher the meaning of a
program. The potential for writing code that resembles the worst outputs of the
@pl lambdabot plugin also becomes larger.
Cale: do you have some real world examples of code you wrote using (.) = fmap?
Secondly, I am really fond of the Applicative notation <$>, which goes great
together with <*>. A lighter notation would be nice, but I see no good way to do
that. (Perhaps we need to add syntactic sugar for idiom brackets?)
Twan
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