Am Mittwoch, 4. März 2009 13:59 schrieb Magnus Therning:
Yes, there are certain function names that allow infix usage without the back-ticks, the name 'chain' doesn't. What those function names are? Roughly you can say that functions that they are functions that look like binary operations, like + - ++ >>> etc. I'm not sure I read the pangauage spec correctly, but it looks like operators are made up of the following characters !@#$%^&*+-./\|<=>?~ (IIRC ':' has a special meaning in that it's allowed in "constructors", cf 1:2:[]).
':' is the symbol-equivalent of an upper case letter, so it's special only if it's the first symbol of an operator name, then the operator is a constructor. It can appear in any place but the first in ordinary operators. For example: (:) :: a -> [a] -> [a] -- first symbol is ':' => constructor (:+) :: (RealFloat a) => a -> a -> Complex a -- constructor (/:/) :: a -> b -> b -- ':' not first symbol => ordinary operator
/M