Re: [Haskell-cafe] Language complexity & beginners (Was: New type of ($) operator in GHC 8.0 is problematic)

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Imants Cekusins wrote:

would it be a bad taste to overload ;?

Won't it create ambiguity problems like the following? ghci> do { putStr "Hello, the answer is "; print $ 40 + 2 } being changed into the invalid ghci> do { putStr "Hello, the answer is "; print ; 40 + 2 } -- Mihai Maruseac (MM) "If you can't solve a problem, then there's an easier problem you can solve: find it." -- George Polya