On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, Bas van Dijk wrote:
I use (<*>) already for scalar product in NumericPrelude. For me it looks like a commutative operator, which Applicative.<*> is not. The existence of (<*>) in Applicative module is ok for me, but I do not want name clashes with it when automatically imported by Prelude.
Personally, I'm not the biggest fan of the '<*>' symbol either. I would rather like something which doesn't look commutative and features a '$' somewhere to indicate its "applicative" nature. However, I don't think we should be proposing name changes in this proposal.
FWIW, I personally use <@> for ap in my non-Haskell work, or some other variation like @@. Though I do agree that we shoudn't be proposing name changes in this proposal. -- Russell O'Connor http://r6.ca/ ``All talk about `theft,''' the general counsel of the American Graphophone Company wrote, ``is the merest claptrap, for there exists no property in ideas musical, literary or artistic, except as defined by statute.''