Re: Proposal: Add (&) to Data.Function

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:02 AM, John Wiegley wrote:

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I think |>= and |>~ would just be unfortunate, and lens is likely to be one of the biggest users of this new operator (at least at this point in time).

I think the biggest user will be Haskell code in general, because you can now use |> instead of ".", so we should be optimizing for that, not for any particular library.

Great! And using & instead of the longer line-noisier identifier cuts down on the visual clutter in that code tremendously. =P $ is one symbol. & is one symbol. ("hello","world" ) & fst & length grows on you ;) -Edward