Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is $ right associative instead of left associative?

On 2/4/06, Brian Hulley <brianh@metamilk.com> wrote:

Does anyone know why this strange associativity was chosen?

I think it's very natural. Everything after the $, including other $ expressions, is applied to the stuff before the $. This saves me from a lot of nested parentheses. It seems to be that the left-associative version of $ does not decrease nesting level so effectively. -- Taral <taralx@gmail.com> "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -- Edsger Dijkstra