On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Marc Gorenstein <marc.gorenstein@gmail.com> wrote:
What sort of beast is ( / 8) in Haskell? It looks like it is a function that divides a number by 8.

It's an operator section. http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch3.html#x8-300003.5 describes their syntax and their precedence behavior.

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