relative precedence of ! and function application

[Paul Hudak]

Array notation conventions aside, I think the simple rule that normal
application has higher precedence than infix application is a Big Win.
Perhaps the committee should have introduced special syntax for arrays,
but that was simply not palatable to most of the members, even though
it was for lists.

Of course, if you really don't like the parens, you can always write
your example as:

  f $ x!i

where ($) is defined in the prelude as:

infixr 0 $
f $ x = f x

(:-)  -Paul