[Haskell-cafe] why can't you surround (+) in backticks and have it be infix?

"Issues: In Haskell, any function or constructor can be enclosed in backticks and then used as an infix operator. " from http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~mfn/hacle/issues/node2.html But this seems to be contradicted by... from #haskell -- 09:19 < tphyahoo> > let func = (+) in 1 `func` 2 -- 09:19 < lambdabot> 3 -- 09:20 < tphyahoo> but ...... -- 09:20 < tphyahoo> 1 `(+)` 2 -- 09:20 < tphyahoo> > 1 `(+)` 2 -- 09:20 < lambdabot> Parse error (+) is a function, is it not? Where's the rub? thomas. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/why-can%27t-you-surround-%28%2B%29-in-backticks-and-ha... Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com.