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Re:Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages by mikepurvis on Thursday January 05, 2023 @05:03PM (#34267488)
I'm not a Haskell user, but my experience with this in the Nix language is a bit mixed. It definitely works sometimes, but then you get a pileup of parenthesis nesting anyway, because the default is greedy and you have to control which functions get which arguments.
Re:Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages by nine_k on Thursday January 05, 2023 @07:02PM (#34268893)
Don't $ signs work in Nix the way the work in Haskell?

E.g. https://mmhaskell.com/blog/2021/7/5/function-application-usi...

Re:Microfeatures I'd like to see in more languages by mikepurvis on Friday January 06, 2023 @09:03AM (#34274630)
If so, I've never seen that style used or documented.