Re: Why is $ right associative instead of leftassociative?

These lineages are more or less right, except that there is a bit of
incest: LML is certainly one of the progenitors of Haskell.  (more
semantically than syntactically, though)

Cheers,
--Joe

ajb <at> spamcop.net said:
> G'day all.
>
> Quoting Paul Hudak <paul.hudak <at> yale.edu>:
>
>> Actually, one of the main reasons that we chose (:) is that that's what
>> Miranda used.  So, at the time at least, it was not entirely clear what
>> the "de facto universal inter-language standard" was.
>
> Exactly.  One point that's often not appreciated is that Haskell is not
> a descendent of ML.  The ML lineage is, roughly:
>
>     Lisp -> ISWIM -> ML -> SML, LML, O'Caml etc
>
> And the Haskell lineage is:
>
>     Lisp -> ISWIM -> SASL -> KRC -> Miranda -> Haskell
>
> ML is much more like an older cousin than an ancestor.
>
> This point is important because Turner languages already had a list
> syntax at the time that they adopted an ML-like type system.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew Bromage
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