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DannoHung on Nov 10, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Haskell is beautiful in practice

Even in that code block, <|> and <$> both have roughly the common meanings of | and $ elsewhere in Haskell, which is the "next case" operator for pattern matching expressions and the strictness operator for ensuring that a function is applied to a value correctly.

Only <* is a really new construction.

shrughes on Nov 10, 2009 [–]

...and the strictness operator for ensuring that a function is applied to a value correctly.

($) isn't any kind of strictness operator -- maybe you're thinking of ($!). ($) is a plain old function application operator.

blasdel on Nov 11, 2009 | [–]

It's strictness for applicative precedence, as ($) is the least of the operators, like a greedy open-paren.

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