Suggestion: Infix operators/functions

[Isiah Meadows]

As it stands, I'd rather see operator overloading before custom operators.
In order to have decent custom operators, you really have to take into
account the whole grammar, and adding them in a way that's not a blatant
tack on usually involves rethinking the entire grammar. In contrast,
operator overloading only requires a rethink of the primitive object model,
and only analogous to how `instanceof` had to change to accommodate
`Symbol.hasInstance`.

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018, 07:07 kdex <kdex at kdex.de> wrote:

> In ECMAScript's current state, infix operators would likely complicate
> future
> discussions of operator overloading. Before we tackle these problems, I
> think
> it's more convenient to have type annotations first.
>
> On Friday, February 2, 2018 12:55:17 PM CET Thomas Grainger wrote:
> > I'm porting this from the TypeScript issue tracker, original from:
> > https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/2319#issue-60851953
> >
> > Since it's very unlikely that the extension methods will ever be
> > implemented [in a call-site-rewrite
> > manner](https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/9#
> > issuecomment-74302592),
> > please consider adding infix operators to enable writing in functional
> > style similarly to what can be done in Haskell:
> >
> > Monoids
> >
> > ```js
> >
> >     function '+' (left, right) {
> >        return left.concat(right);
> >     }
> >
> >     [1, 2, 3] '+' [4, 5]; // [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
> >
> > ```
> >
> > Monads
> >
> > ```js
> >     function '>>=' (promise, bind) {
> >        return promise.then(bind);
> >     }
> >     $.get('/get') '>>=' x => $.post('/save', x + 1)
> > ```
> >
> > Functors
> >
> > ```js
> >     function '.' (inner, outer) {
> >        return function(value: a) : c {
> >           return outer(inner(value))
> >        }
> >     }
> >
> >     function f(x) { }
> >     function g(y) { }
> >     (f '.' g)(x); // z
> > ```
> >
> >
> >
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