This is probably a minority opinion, but I have written and read quite a lot of OCaml code over the years, and I've seen surprisingly few effective uses of the composition operator.  Somehow, I usually find that code that avoids it is simpler and easier to read.

I'm not averse to infix operators.  At Jane Street we've found the following sequencing operator to be highly useful:

let ( |! ) x f = f x

and it is indeed part of the default include in Jane Street's Core library.

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On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Arlen Christian Mart Cuss <arlen@noblesamurai.com> wrote:
Hi all,

I know this was asked at least 12 years ago[1], but is there any
consensus or reason for there not being a "compose" function in standard
OCaml, nor an infix operator?

At the moment I tend to "let compose" or "let (<<-) f g x = f (g x)",
but I wish I didn't have to!

Thanks,
Arlen

[1]
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