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

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Yitzchak Gale wrote:

It is a common idiom to write a sequence of composed combinators in reverse order to the way they would be written with ($) or (.). That naturally expresses the idea of the combinators as operations being applied in the given order.

I think the bar should be pretty high before we add a third way to write function application to base. How common is this? Common among whom? Why can't the existing idioms of (.) and ($) work just as well? My own opinion is that this will only serve to confuse new people.

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