Interesting insight: variadic functions make infix operators less necessary. From
miniblog.
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I've been writing docs for different programming language operators (+, *, == and so on). Each one gets a separate web page.
I've suddenly realised that / is much harder! docs/+ and docs/== is fine, but docs// just doesn't work as a URL in a static site.
Any ideas?
I'm adding a += operator to my programming language, because writing `x = x + 1` is tedious.
This opens the tricky design question of which operators should support this. Is += and -= sufficient, or do you expect things like >>= and **= to be available?
Very readable discussion of different ways of expressing applicative and monads in ocaml. Discusses the necessary operators and new syntactic sugar:
