Re: Flipped function application

Niklas Haas writes:

On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 11:51:39 -0700 (PDT), Wvv wrote:

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It's looking very strange, that such easy function as flipped function application is still absent at the base.

I'm not convinced the stylistic differences to ($) are really worth adding it as a distinct combinator, at least for general-purpose code.

Agreed

It works nicely for lens because it lets you mimic the appearance of record update syntax, but it might not be the best idea to introduce it as an entirely separate idiom - seeing as it could cause lots of unnecessary code complexity and confusion.

Hear, hear. And mimicking record syntax is mimicking something that’s backwards anyway. The syntax should have been “{fld=val} rec”, and “{fld=val}” should just be a function like any other. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk