#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 tepan): Replying to [comment:3 svenpanne]: Your premise is that whitespaces do or should only matter for indentation ("offside rule"), but they do matter as I pointed out, exactly when it comes to modules and the `.` syntax: `Foo . bar` is function composition of constructor `Foo` and function `bar`, whereas `Foo.bar` is `bar` of module `Foo`. The aim of my proposal is not to change that. Current dot-notation for modules (not to be changed): * `Foo.bar` (`bar` of module `Foo`) Proposed dot-notation for function application: * `foo.bar` (function `bar` applied to `foo`) -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14812#comment:5 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler