Here is something in Haskell which is confusing/bothering me right now.
What magic do the parenthesis do exactly?
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`, conversely, transforms prefix into infix:
4 `elem` [3, 4, 5] # => True
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I found this eventually, but thanks :O The asymmetry here is weird to me.
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Agreed that it’s weird. I suspect the asymmetry is necessary to avoid ambiguous parses.
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Part of what attracts me to Functional is "we got rid of all the 'syntax', it's all just functions!"
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That’s way, way more true in Lisp than Haskell. :|
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And haskell seems to treat that as an opportunity "now we can add a whole bunch of syntax in to offset what we pulled!"