Manuel Chakravarty and Olaf Chitil debate the fixity of ($):

> > I think the idea behind $ is exactly the change of
> > associativity.
> 
> Hmm, I thought, the idea behind it is a change of precedence...
> 
> > I use $ a lot to save a lot of brackets. I very much prefer
> > 
> > f $ g $ h $ i $ j $ x
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > f (g (h ( i ( j x))))
> > 
> > and even to
> > 
> > (f . g . h . i . j) x
> 
> The latter is actually what I use in this case.

Myself, I tend to use:

f . g . h . i . j $ x


So at least at first wink, I think I might concur that precedence
is the more crucial...

Slán,
Alex.


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