Suggestion regarding (.) and map

[Cale Gibbard]

2008/4/24 Wolfgang Jeltsch <g9ks157k at acme.softbase.org>:
> Am Mittwoch, 23. April 2008 23:55 schrieb Cale Gibbard:
>  > […]
>
>  > Rename fmap to map
>
>  This would be really great!  There is no point in having a map just for lists
>  and a general map for functors since the list map is the same as the list
>  instance's functor map.  And identifiers with a single lowercase letter in
>  front or after a lowercase word (fmap, foldr, etc.) are not nice, in my
>  opinion.
>
>
>  > (like it was in Haskell 1.4),
>
>  It really was this way in Haskell 1.4?  Why was it changed?
>
>
>  > and define (.) as a synonym for it.
>
>  I don't think that this is reasonable.  (.) corresponds to the little circle
>  in math which is a composition.  So (.) = (<<<) would be far better.
>

But the realisation here is that composition *is* functor application,
for a certain rather important functor. :)

 - Cale