On 10/28/10 10:42 AM, Ben Millwood wrote:
Here's the wiki page:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/CompositionAsDot
Personally I think function composition is what Haskell is all about
and it is absolutely essential that the syntax for it be lightweight.
If we think using . as qualification as well as composition is
confusing, I'm much more inclined to say using it as qualification was
a mistake.
The comment on the wiki page about $ being more common in reality is
not even close to true for my own code, and I don't think I'm unusual
in that regard.
Agreed on both counts. Personally, I'd much rather have name
qualification and record selection use a different character than to
remove (.) as composition. And replacing (.) with some abomination like
`o` is unthinkable.
As for the selector character, I'm partial to # but that would clash
with MagicHash.
--
Live well,
~wren
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