Unicode operators

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Bent Rasmussen wrote:
> "Robert Fraser" <fraserofthenight at gmail.com> skrev i meddelelsen 
> news:ge3mit$i33$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> So what's the difference? That is to say, what would 
>> tolower(trim(str)) translate to?
> 
> It would translate to something like
> 
> val x = str |> trim |> tolower;
> 
> So it looks like a pipeline. And to construct such a function, you'd 
> define it as
> 
> val f = trim >> tolower;
> val x = str |> f;
> 
> This is from memory, I don't program in F#.

BTW, incidentally std.functional defines both operators in prefix form:

auto x = pipe!(trim, tolower)(str);

or

auto x = compose!(tolower, trim)(str);


Andrei