#14812: Dot-Notation for Flipped Function Application -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: tepan | Owner: (none) Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.2.2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by simonpj): There's plenty of historical discussion about this; wiki link in comment:11 is a good starting point. Personally, I think that something like this would be very attractive for writing pipelines of computation. One particularly attractive possibility is using type inference to drive auto-complete and drop-down menus of possibilities. IDEs for OO languages use this to tremendous effect. There's an old paper [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.146.5411 The power is in the dot] which I have not reviewed recently but remember enjoying some years ago. Definitely a GHC-proposal suggestion though. It would surely be controversial. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14812#comment:12 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler