I agree with Koen: \\ is list subtraction and we're all used to subtraction being left associative. John. Jon Fairbairn wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Koen Claessen wrote:
I propose that it gets the following fixity:
infixl 5 \\
Unless the it's common usage outside of Haskell, I oppose!
Getting
List> [1,2,3]\\[2]\\[3] ERROR: Ambiguous use of operator "(\\)" with "(\\)"
at compile time does no harm, but getting [1] instead of [1,3] _at run time_ does do harm. Jón -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk 31 Chalmers Road jf@cl.cam.ac.uk Cambridge CB1 3SZ +44 1223 570179 (pm only, please)
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