I've never seen it in any other language.<br>It was probably created by the camp of lisp-hating functional programmers. <br>The ($) function is basically: <br>(a -> b) -> a -> b<br><br>It certainly takes a lot of work off of the parenthesis matcher in my IDE. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Ian P. Cardenas <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ipc@srand.net">ipc@srand.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Mar 11, 2009, at 14:44 , Rick R wrote:<br>
> actually, I was confused below.<br>
> in the case of<br>
> f a g b<br>
> f a (g b) is required,<br>
> or f a $ g b<br>
> where $ is the death-to-parens infix operator, which has a<br>
> precedence of 0.<br>
<br>
</div>I've never seen a language use an infix operator like that; that's<br>
fairly useful.<br>
Are there other languages that have it?<br>
<br>
Personally, I can't read 'f a b c' as anything other than ' ((f a) b)<br>
c)'.<br>
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