On 11 October 2010 00:00, Johannes Waldmann
My point was: you need to find/define two operators, not just one.
Sure, I need flip ($) and flip (.)
Since the Prelude forgot to define these (and flip map), the question was: are there established names for these two operators?
(#) was quite "established" for flip ($) around 2000 - its in a couple of papers that appeared at the PADL conferences - one written by Erik Meijer, Daan Leijen and (I think) James Hook on scripting Microsoft Agents with COM. The authors noted reverse application with (#) gave code a nice OO-like reading. The other was Peter Thiemann's Wash - (#) is again flip ($) and (##) is flipped compose. Typographically I think these are a good fit, unfortunately they now might play badly with GHC's magic hash operator. Best wishes Stephen