[mercury-users] higher order syntax

[Ralph Becket]

The mercury syntax allows us to write `P(...)' and
`F(...)' in place of `call(P, ...)' and `apply(F, ...)'
respectively, provided P/F are *variables*
bound to predicate/function values.

On the other hand, if I have, say

:- func f = (func(T1) = T2).

as crops up in, for instance, the monadic style,
I have to write `apply(f, X)' rather than just
`f(X)'.

Similarly, if F has type `func(T1) = (func(T2) = T3)'
then I have to write `apply(F(X), Y)'.  Would it be
hard to extend the convenience syntax so that one
could write `F(X)(Y)' instead?  Or, if it makes life
any easier for the parser writers, `(F(X))(Y)' and
`(f)(X)'?  This syntax looks clearer and less mixed up
and, IIRC, it's what the XSB/HiLog people do.

Cheers,

Ralph
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