It seems confusing to alias a function without adding any functionality just
to make things slightly easier to read. Instead wouldn't it be better if
this idiom were documented on haskell.org?

-deech

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Vo Minh Thu <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2010/7/26 Vo Minh Thu <[email protected]>:
> > 2010/7/26 Daniel Fischer <[email protected]>:
> >> On Monday 26 July 2010 23:25:27, Max Rabkin wrote:
> >>>
> >>> It took me a fair while (I'm talking on the order of half a minute) to
> >>> figure out what that meant, but it's pretty cool.
> >>
> >> Yeah, really neat.
> >>
> >>> Maybe a different
> >>> name would be better? How about (??) or "it"?
> >>>
> >>> > listeEtagTot = concatMap (listeEtagArm ?? cfgTypesTringle)
> listeArmOrd
> >>> > listeEtagTot = concatMap (listeEtagArm `it` cfgTypesTringle)
> >>> > listeArmOrd
> >>
> >> I think (??) is far better.
> >> Additionally, it doesn't run into problems with ghci's magical `it'.
> >
> > (__) is quite good :)
>
> Well, I meant `__`
>
> Cheers,
> Thu
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