> 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 <rae@richarde.dev>
Sent: 07 January 2020 11:39
To: Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com>
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 <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