Re: [Haskell-cafe] Function application like a Unix pipe

I offer a simpler, more direct, and pre-existing correspondence between a functional programming construct and unix pipes: http://www.vex.net/~trebla/weblog/pointfree.html "Scherrer, Chad" writes:

I'm still trying to settle on a "feel" for good programming style in Haskell. One thing I've been making some use of lately is

(\|) = flip ($) infixl 0 \|

Then expressions like

f4 $ f3 $ f2 $ f1 $ x

become

x \| f1 \| f2 \| f3 \| f4

I've seen something like this on haWiki using (#), but I prefer this notation because it looks like a Unix pipe, which is exactly how it's used.

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