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

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 <simonmarhaskell@gmail.com> * add ""Make $ left associative, like application"

Is there a justification for this somewhere?

I'm hoping someone will supply some. There seemed to be strong opinion on #haskell that this change should be made, but it might just have been a very vocal minority.

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.

Absolutely. Given that, we'd need a *very* good reason to make the change. Cheers, Simon