<div class="gmail_extra">On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Yitzchak Gale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gale@sefer.org" target="_blank">gale@sefer.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div> It is a common idiom to write a sequence of composed combinators in</div><div> reverse order to the way they would be written with ($) or (.). That</div><div> naturally expresses the idea of the combinators as operations being</div>
<div> applied in the given order.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think the bar should be pretty high before we add a third way to write function application to base. How common is this? Common among whom? Why can't the existing idioms of (.) and ($) work just as well?</div>
<div><br></div><div>My own opinion is that this will only serve to confuse new people.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
<div>Discussion period: 2 weeks </div><div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>I am currently opposed.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Dave Menendez <<a href="mailto:dave@zednenem.com">dave@zednenem.com</a>><br>
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