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

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 21:02 -0400, Dan Doel wrote:

3) Left associative ($) is consistent with left associative ($!). The right associative version of the latter is inconvenient, because it only allows things to be (easily) strictly applied to the last argument of a function.

What about having ! as a left associative strict apply operator? f !x !y !z Isn't there already a proposal along these lines? There is certainly a proposal to stop using ! for array indexing. Duncan