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

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 09:52:11AM -0700, Simon Marlow wrote:

The problem with this is that

f !x y

would associate differently in an expression than it does on the left hand side of an equation, where ! is the prefix bang-pattern operator. To make this consistent we'd have to make ! a prefix operator in expressions

But it's not a prefix operator in the sense that we could define it (in a hypothetical language that allowed us to define prefix operators), it's actually syntax, which makes it much less appealing to me. Thanks Ian