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

[Vincent Aravantinos <vincent.aravantinos@yahoo.fr>]

Le 19 sept. 07 à 21:49, Fabrice Marchant a écrit :

> 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...

And how about (<<-) or (<--) ?

Cheers,
Vincent