Re: Why is $ right associative instead ofleftassociative?

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 10:45:50AM -0500, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> I don't really see what's so much better about writing
> [x1,x2,x3,x4,x5] than x1:x2:x3:x4:x5:[].
> When I've explained lists to beginners I've just found it
> annoying and hard to explain why there are two ways of
> writing lists.  And why only lists have this special syntax.
> 
> 	-- Lennart

But if you remove the [...] syntax, there will be more :'s in
people's code. You are working against yourself here 

Best regards
Tomasz

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