Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is $ right associative instead of left associative?

Taral wrote:

I think it's very natural. Everything after the $, including other $ expressions, is applied to the stuff before the $. This saves me from a lot of nested parentheses.

To me, ($) helping me to avoid writing lots of parentheses, makes it extremely useful. Actually: except for passing function application to higher-order functions, this is the only way I use it. So, I always thought parentheses were *the* reason for the right- associativity of ($). Not sure if it really was originally, but, ever so, I think it is the best reason. Regards, Stefan