On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 07:49:00PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The operator ($) is often considered an application operator of a > lower precedence. Modulo precedence, there seem to be no difference > between ($) and `the white space', and so one can quickly get used to > treat these operators as being semantically the same. However, they > are not the same in all circumstances. I'd like to observe an > important case where replacing the application with ($) in a > fully-parenthesized expression can lead to a type error.
I think this post should go under the heading "($) considered harmful". I've been bitten by this, and I never use ($) anymore in place of parentheses because it's too tempting to think of it as syntax. (Of course, it's still useful, by itself or in a slice, as a higher-order operator.) Andrew _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
