Functional Application (Notes)
Apr 7, 2019 00:00 · 100 words · 1 minute read
In Haskell, functional application associates to the left in expressions and also has the highest binding power. What does this mean?
Well, this is what it means:
If you have a function: f x y z left associativity implies: (((f x) y) z). The highest binding power means that f x + y will be parsed as (f x) + y.
Another counter-intuitive example to demonstrate the ‘highest binding power of left associativity’ is: f sin 3. This will not pass the result of sin 3 to f. Instead, it will pass the sin and 3 as arguments to f.