The argument above is that the code will have more (not less) clarity for those coming from Haskell and the expressiveness of its infix operators. A comparison is made to the alien-ness of the Plug macro when first encountered.
One can think of Witchcraft library users as ivory tower kids gentrifying the Elixir neighborhood, or as squatters from Haskell-land. Changes to infix operators has kicked them out without an eviction notice.
Perhaps from Elixir citizens’ perspective they were always being tolerated rather than invited. (99% were unaware they had moved in.) But I think it’s worth making allowances for them, even if there’s only a 1% chance that their code expressiveness bleeds into Elixir proper.
PS: I presume the Elixir formatter currently handles (custom) infix operators. And it sounds like they’re willing to make the pull requests to keep it compatible. I’m not sure if there are other “accommodations” that need be made.
