Note: (>>>) is a completely different operator.
is flipped (.). The proposed & is flipped $.
(>>>) :: Category cat => cat a b -> cat b c -> cat a c (&) :: a -> (a -> b) -> b -Edward On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Henning Thielemann < lemming@henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
It is a common idiom to write a sequence of composed combinators in
reverse order to the way they would be written with ($) or (.). That naturally expresses the idea of the combinators as operations being applied in the given order.
This comes up so often, and is commonly used so many times in a single expression, that Control.Arrow.>>> is far too wordy, and even a two- character operator is awkward.
Functional metapost called it (#). But for me (>>>) is ok. It is even more descriptive than (&).
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