I remember this from one of Dijkstra's notes, but I don't remember which one. On dinsdag 9 april 2019 16:00:11 CEST Michael Orlitzky wrote:
Everyone knows that parentheses suck for function application.
But I'm looking for a CS paper that argues that function application should have its own explicit syntax in a functional programming language. I believe, in the paper, that a dot "." was used, but this would be analogous to Haskell's "$" function, except that it would be made part of the language definition.
I think it came up on this mailing list (where else would I have seen it?), and if anyone remembers the name or author I'd be grateful.
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