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		mchaver 25 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LispE: Lisp Interpreter with Pattern Programming a... It's not too bad. I like it! Haskell uses "$" to do the same thing.

shiandow 25 days ago | [–]

Technically $ means something slightly different, it is more somilar to putting parentheses around the right half of the expression. For function composition it uses the same '.' .

shakna 25 days ago | [–]

Well, you could use $ in Lisp, too. Thats a standard valid symbol, that doesn't have a builtin meaning.

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