On 22 November 2012 11:46, Johan Tibell
On Thursday, November 22, 2012, Joachim Breitner wrote:
Hi,
-1 for adding such an operator at all. Languages benefit from consistnet idiom; too many ways of doing the same thing are not always good.
-1 for me for the same reason. After looking at examples in this thread I don't find that the loss in readability is worth it.
Also for beginners I don't want to explain yet another way to write function application.
-1 for more or less the same reason. This is one of those little things which seems innocuous, but I don't trust people enough to not use it to write horrible backward messes that I'd rather not have to read. At one point, the code in PLEAC for Haskell redefined (.) to be flipped application, and the result was... let's say highly unidiomatic. Even without the travesty of stealing composition for an operation which doesn't generalise it, I'd rather not encourage this sort of thing.