On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:12 AM, John Smith
On 28/10/2010 10:15, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:
Hi haskellers.
Reading through the Haskell Prime suggestions, one that caught my eye is the CompositionAsDot issue.
I'm especially thinking of the Pro issue: * Paves the way for using . as the selection operator in improved record or module systems
Here's the wiki page: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/CompositionAsDot Personally I think function composition is what Haskell is all about and it is absolutely essential that the syntax for it be lightweight. If we think using . as qualification as well as composition is confusing, I'm much more inclined to say using it as qualification was a mistake. The comment on the wiki page about $ being more common in reality is not even close to true for my own code, and I don't think I'm unusual in that regard.