It's a postfix operator, with the same precedence and same (left-)associativity as function application.
Yes, that’s right. Nice.
Simon
From: Richard Eisenberg
Sent: 07 January 2020 11:39
To: Simon Peyton Jones
Cc: ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org
Subject: Re: [ghc-steering-committee] Record syntax
On Jan 7, 2020, at 11:29 AM, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-steering-committee mailto:ghc-steering-committee@haskell.org> wrote:
It’s a postfix operator, binding less tightly than function application, but more tightly than any infix operator.
I want to understand this a bit better. Looking at your examples, I would phrase it thusly:
It's a postfix operator, with the same precedence and same (left-)associativity as function application.
Does this agree with your idea? Indeed, I can't quite figure out what your text would mean.
Richard
