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Haskell Operators and Lexical Symbols

The document outlines various operators and their meanings used in a programming context, including mathematical, comparison, sequencing, and constructors. It provides examples for each operator to illustrate their usage. Additionally, it notes the similarity of some operators to those found in C, C++, and Java.

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Haskell Operators and Lexical Symbols

The document outlines various operators and their meanings used in a programming context, including mathematical, comparison, sequencing, and constructors. It provides examples for each operator to illustrate their usage. Additionally, it notes the similarity of some operators to those found in C, C++, and Java.

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Operator & Meaning Example Usage

Comments

-- Start of comment line -- calculating the area of any triangle

{- Start of short comment {-

-} End of short comment calculating the area of any triangle given

the two lengths and enclosed angle.

-}

Mathematical

+ Add operator (+) 5 2 or 5 + 2

- Subtract/negate operator (-) 5 2 or 5 – 2

* Multiply operator (*) 5 2 or 5 * 2

/ Division operator (/) 5 2 or 5 / 2

/ Substitution operator, as in e{f/x}

^, ^^, ** Raise-to-the-power operators ( ^ ) raises any number to a nonnegative integer


power e.g. 5 ^ 2

( ^^ ) raises a fractional number to any integer


power e.g. 5.3 ^ 2

( ** ) takes two floating-point arguments e.g. 5.3 ^


2.4
&& And operator True && False
|| Or operator (5>2) || (3 > 4)

NOTE: The following operators and lexical symbols will be illustrated as they are introduced so as to
avoid confusion

Comparison Function

Used the same way as in C, C++ and Java \ Lambda operator

< Less-than operator . Function composition operator

<= Less-than-or-equal operator . Name qualifier

== Equal operator | Guard and case specifier

/= Not-equal operator | Separator in list comprehension

>= Greater-than-or-equal operator | Alternative in data definition (enum type)

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> Greater-than operator

Sequencing List

; Definition separator ++ List concatenation operator

-> Function type-mapping operator. : Append-head operator (\cons")

-> Lambda definition operator !! Indexing operator

-> Separator in case construction .. Range-specifier for lists

= Type- or value-naming operator \\ List-difference operator

:: Type specification operator, \has type" <- List comprehension generator

=> Context inheritance from class <- Single assignment operator in do-constr.

() Empty value in IO () type

>> Monad sequencing operator

>>= Monad sequencing operator with value


passing

>@> Object composition operator (monads)

(..) Constructor for export operator (postfix)

Constructors Patterns

[ and ] List constructors, \," as separator _ Wildcard in pattern

( and ) Tuple constructors, \," as separator ~ Irrefutable pattern

Infix-to-prefix constructors ! Force evaluation (strictness flag)

` and ` Prefix-to-infix constructors @ “Read As” in pattern matching

' and ' Literal char constructors

" and " String constructors

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