Brian Hurt wrote:
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, wren ng thornton wrote:
Even with functionalists ---of the OCaml and SML ilk--- this use of spaces can be confusing if noone explains that function application binds tighter than all operators.
Bwuh? Ocaml programmers certainly know that application binds tighter than operators. And as:
Not being of either ilk, perhaps I mis-relayed the confusions of a friend recently converted to Haskell :) The issue I was raising had not so much to do with un/currying of functions but rather whether something like "foo bar %^& baz" means "(foo bar) %^& baz" or "foo (bar %^& baz)". I believe this was voiced as an SML issue more than an OCaml issue, though honestly I don't know enough of the differences to distinguish them. Before I mentioned that function/prefix application always binds tighter than operator/infix application, he was using many redundant parentheses, thanks to defensive programming against whichever dialect was at fault. -- Live well, ~wren