The & operator in Data.Function--which is just flipped $ with slightly higher, but still very low, operator precedence--at least gives you a way to deal with th

The & operator in Data.Function--which is just flipped $ with slightly higher, but still very low, operator precedence--at least gives you a way to deal with this in base; it's unfortunate it isn't more widely used in tutorials and example code (at least from what I've seen).