precedence of Haskell unary minus

["Rector L. Page" <zrlp09@trc.amoco.com>]

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From: "Rector L. Page" <zrlp09@trc.amoco.com>
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Subject: precedence of Haskell unary minus
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The syntax and semantics of numerical algebraic expressions should
reflect, as closely as possible, customary mathematical notations.
All readers of high-school algebra texts or calculus texts or any 
writings in the general area of real or complex variables would expect
-2^2 to be -4.  Writers wanting to indicate the square of -2 would
use the formula (-2)^2.

-- Rex