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

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Andreas Abel writes:

Well, the obvious meaning of &= is bitwise-and-with, like in x &= 0xff7f; isn't it? ;-)

I realize this is tongue-in-cheek, but & is not universally the "bit-wise and" operator. In the POSIX shell saying "foo & bar" means to start processing foo asynchronously and then run "bar". But that also breaks the piping analogy lens is using & for, so hmm... 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). -- John Wiegley FP Complete Haskell tools, training and consulting http://fpcomplete.com johnw on #haskell/irc.freenode.net