Excerpts from aditya siram's message of Sun Jul 25 17:13:16 -0400 2010:
> Eta-reducing is nice, and sometimes it makes code more readable. But 'flip'
> is one of those functions that always seems to hinder rather than help
> readability, conversely factoring out flip always makes code easier to
> comprehend. I don't see a need for its existence - maybe I'm missing
> something and more experienced Haskellers can comment.
An interesting alternate spin on flip is infix notation combined with partial
application, such as:
(`foobar` 3)
which is equivalent to
\x -> foobar x 3
I frequently use this, although the jury's out on whether or not it's more
readable.
Cheers,
Edward
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