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

Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008 01:20 schrieb Duncan Coutts:

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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?

Probably the fact that you can write

f $ g $ h $ u $ v $ w $ x

instead of

f (g (h (u (v (w x)))))

and thereby avoid building forests of parantheses.

Duncan

Best wishes, Wolfgang