<div dir="ltr">I think that since infix notation always takes two parameters, the compiler handles parameter swapping to match the unfilled argument for convenience. Not sure where this would be described in a spec though.<div>
<br><div style>Cheers,</div><div style>Darren</div><div style><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Marc Gorenstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marc.gorenstein@gmail.com" target="_blank">marc.gorenstein@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>What sort of beast is ( / 8) in Haskell? It looks like it is a function that divides a number by 8.</div>
<div><br></div><div>*Main> ( / 8 ) 4<br></div><div><div>0.5</div><div><br></div><div>*Main> let a = ( / 8 )<br>
</div><div>*Main> a 4</div><div>0.5</div><div><br></div><div>-- Yup that works.</div><div><br></div><div>Does ( / 8 ) turn into a function that takes an argument, so that the "left" input to the /, becomes a right input to the function? <br>
What precedence rule is being followed here?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Marc</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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