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.