I agree with Koen: \\ is list subtraction and we're all used to subtraction being left
associative.
John.
Jon Fairbairn wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Koen Claessen wrote:
> > I propose that it gets the following fixity:
> >
> > infixl 5 \\
>
> Unless the it's common usage outside of Haskell, I oppose!
>
> Getting
>
> List> [1,2,3]\\[2]\\[3]
> ERROR: Ambiguous use of operator "(\\)" with "(\\)"
>
> at compile time does no harm, but getting [1] instead of
> [1,3] _at run time_ does do harm.
> Jón
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