Re: [Caml-list] Having '<<', why to use '|>' ?

[Fabrice Marchant <fabrice.marchant@orange.fr>]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:42:27 +0100
Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:

>> A 3 chars operator (<<<) doesn't look smart.  
>That is actually the F# for lsl. There are also ||| and &&& for bitwise ops.

  Thanks Jon, happy to read you,

 So, do you think that (<<<) could replace (<<) as a function composition operator ?

> > However, about (@@), I preferred to see the direction of the asymmetric
> > composition operator. ( <| ) instead of ( << ) ? Is this a possible idea ?

> But "<<" is the converse of ">>" (in F#) and "|>" has no converse (or you 
> could say that "x |> f" is the converse of "f x").

Things must keep consistent, you're right. So, ( <| ) instead of ( << )
can't be used.
Julien proposed ( @@ ).

However I saw it was used this way :

let rec ( @@ ) l1 l2 = List.rev_append l1 l2;;  ( Why rec ? )

here :
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=178291

  It would be useful that experimented OCaml people suggest a replacement for the heavily used composition operator ( << ) that is now reserved for camlp4...

 Regards,

Fabrice