10 Oct
2013
10 Oct
'13
10:13 a.m.
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:46 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
F# uses (|>). Maybe (#) is good. To me (&) looks too commutative because it’s usually used for conjunction.
I mentioned this on the core list, but I'll mention it here, too: I don't like (|>), because once you have this operator, you also might as well have the functorial version. We have ($) and (<$>), and lens has (&) and (<&>). The latter is useful for functorial 'for blocks': myFunctorValue <&> \x -> ...complex expression... I actually think it's (significantly) more useful than (&). But, I think (<|>>) is a pretty awful name for it, so I'd prefer a name that makes both palatable. -- Dan