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

On 02/08/2016 12:33 PM, Imants Cekusins wrote:

would f 1 ; 2 + 3

look ok instead of f 1 $ 2 + 3

?

the semicolon would be part of syntax, not something with a type the intuition is: pause application until the rest is applied

The semicolon is already appropriated sadly: ghci> do { putStr "Hello" ; putStrLn " world!"; } Hello world!