fixity of /

[haskell-request]

Original-Via: uk.ac.st-and.cs; Fri, 1 Nov 91 09:49:13 GMT

It has been pointed out to me by the Yale implementers
that the expression a*b/c causes a parse error because / is infix
rather than infixl and is of the same precedence (7) as * which IS
infixl.

Is this an oversight of someone on the committee or are Haskell arithmetic
expressions different from those of most other languages on purpose? If so
what was the purpose?

Tony