Re: [Haskell-cafe] Formatting function types

Lauri Alanko wrote in article <20101230133355.GB323@melkinpaasi.cs.helsinki.fi> in gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe:

The following is much clearer:

openTempFile :: FilePath -> String -> IO (FilePath, Handle)

(Possibly with the arrows aligned.)

I can't understand how the "arrows first" convention still lingers so strongly when it is (to me) so obviously wrong and misleading.

What about chains of $ in terms? (Both -> in types and $ in terms associate to the right. What about + - * / in terms, which associate to the left?) -- Edit this signature at http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ken/sig Where is Galt's Gulch?