@@ -358,20 +358,24 @@ x `usingIO` strat = runEvalIO (strat x)
358358withStrategyIO :: Strategy a -> a -> IO a
359359withStrategyIO = flip usingIO
360360
361- -- | Compose two strategies sequentially.
362- -- This is the analogue to function composition on strategies.
361+ -- | Compose two strategies.
363362--
364- -- For any strategies @strat1@, @strat2@, and @strat3@,
363+ -- > strat2 `dot` strat1 == strat2 . withStrategy strat1
364+ --
365+ -- 'dot' is associative:
365366--
366367-- > (strat1 `dot` strat2) `dot` strat3 == strat1 `dot` (strat2 `dot` strat3)
367- -- > strat1 `dot` strat1 = strat1
368- -- > strat1 `dot` r0 == strat1
369368--
370- -- > strat2 `dot` strat1 == strat2 . withStrategy strat1
369+ -- 'r0' and 'rseq' are one-sided identities of 'dot':
371370--
371+ -- > strat `dot` r0 == strat
372+ -- > strat `dot` rseq == strat
373+ {-# DEPRECATED dot "'dot' is an unintuitive composition operator. Use 'Control.Monad.<=<` instead." #-}
372374dot :: Strategy a -> Strategy a -> Strategy a
373375strat2 `dot` strat1 = strat2 . runEval . strat1
374376
377+ -- Note [dot proofs]
378+ -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
375379-- Proof of strat2 `dot` strat1 == strat2 . withStrategy strat1
376380--
377381-- strat2 . withStrategy strat1
@@ -380,17 +384,14 @@ strat2 `dot` strat1 = strat2 . runEval . strat1
380384-- == \x -> strat2 (runEval (strat1 x))
381385-- == \x -> (strat2 . runEval . strat1) x
382386-- == strat2 `dot` strat1
383-
384- -- One might be tempted to think that 'dot' is equivalent to '(<=<)',
385- -- the right-to-left Kleisli composition in the Eval monad, because
386- -- '(<=<)' can take the type @Strategy a -> Strategy a -> Strategy a@
387- -- and intuitively does what 'dot' does: First apply the strategy to the
388- -- right then the one to the left. However, there is a subtle difference
389- -- in strictness, witnessed by the following example:
390387--
391- -- > (r0 `dot` rseq) undefined == Done undefined
392- -- > (r0 <=< rseq) undefined == undefined
388+ -- Proof of associativity
393389--
390+ -- (strat1 `dot` strat2) `dot` strat3
391+ -- == (strat1 . runEval . strat2) . runEval . strat3
392+ -- == strat1 . runEval . strat2 . runEval . strat3
393+ -- == strat1 . runEval . (strat2 . runEval . strat3)
394+ -- == strat1 `dot` (strat2 `dot` strat3)
394395
395396-- | Inject a sequential strategy (i.e., coerce a sequential strategy
396397-- to a general strategy).
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