Re: patch applied (haskell-prime-status): add ""Make $ left associative, like application"

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 23:13 +0000, Chris Smith wrote:

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:53:39 -0700, Simon Marlow wrote:

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Tue Apr 22 15:53:31 PDT 2008 Simon Marlow * add ""Make $ left associative, like application"

Is there a justification for this somewhere? I know it would break nearly every single piece of Haskell code I've ever written. As such, I'm biased toward thinking it's an extremely bad idea.

Indeed. I think it would at least be worth testing a bunch of packages from hackage and seeing how many break and when they do, how nice the fixes are. Surely there was a justification to having $ be the opposite associativity from application and not just a different precedence. Does anyone know what it was? Duncan