direction of pipelines (Was: Proposal: die to System.Exit (and/or Prelude))

On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Andreas Abel wrote:

On 14.12.2013 12:54, Simon Hengel wrote:

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main :: IO () main = getContents >>= either die run . parseInput

Funny way to write a pipeline. Its neither left-to-right, which would be

getContents >>= (parseInput >>> either die run)

nor right-to-left:

either die run . parseInput =<< getContents

A case for hlint.

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Direction_of_data_flow