RE: Proposal: Dot as Postfix Function Apply

When you consider that every other programming language in common use (and almost every language not in common use as well) allows you to write: print person.name while Haskell requires something like: print (person & name) or print $ person.^name and even that after importing a third-party library or defining it yourself, you begin to understand why beginners think that Haskell looks more like Japanese emoticons than programming.