[kccqzy]

Read more carefully. My advice is to ditch operators in the lens package. I didn't tell anyone to ditch operators in Prelude including <$>.

[agnishom]

My bad.

But I think my point still stands? What is the 'normal' way to write ^. for example?

[kccqzy]

The non-operator way to write ^. is the named function called view. https://hackage-content.haskell.org/package/lens-5.3.5/docs/...

[agnishom]

Thanks. Perhaps you have a point