18 Oct
2009
18 Oct
'09
6:47 p.m.
Gregory Propf
I actually meant it as sort of a joke but maybe it's not after all.
Seriously though, using anything non-ASCII in source code is a bad idea, because there are lots of fonts and editors in the world. It seems natural to me to have (`-`2) stand for (flip (-) 2), if only that would be made legal syntax, just as (`foldl`0) stands for (flip (foldl) 0). Supposedly there is no reason to write (`:`[]) since ":" is already an infix operator, but making it a no-op wouldn't hurt, and would give us a benefit of being able finally to write the binary-minus flip-section in a visually apparent way.