Simplifying a two-parameter anonymous function in Elm - elm

Question

In Elm, if I have an anonymous function
(\f x -> f x)
I can simplify it to
(<|)
Can the same be done for a two-parameter function where the parameters are arguments to another function?
(\x y -> f x y |> g)
I thought I could simply use
(f |> g)
but the compiler complains about the types.
Specifically, in one of the cases for my update function, I have something like this:
let
msgNames = [Foo, Bar]
values = ["f", "b"] // These values are actually derived
// by a more complicated operation
model_ = List.map2 (<|) msgNames values
|> List.foldl (\msg mod -> update msg mod |> Tuple.first)
model
in
( model_, Cmd.none )
I am trying to simplify the anonymous function argument to List.foldl to something like (update |> Tuple.first), but I get the following error from the compiler:
The right side of (|>) is causing a type mismatch.
159| update |> Tuple.first)
^^^^^^^^^^^
(|>) is expecting the right side to be a:
(Msg -> Model -> ( Model, Cmd Msg )) -> a
But the right side is:
(( Model, Cmd Msg )) -> Model

Answer 1

We can follow a few steps to simplify:
(\x y -> f x y |> g)
... can be written as
(\x y -> g (f x y))
... can be written as
(\x -> g << f x)
One more step and things get a little more confusing:
(((<<) g) << f)
This matches what you get from pointfree.io (which is Haskell where function composition is done using the . operator):
(g .) . f
If you are trying to improve readability, you might just want to make your own infix function:
infixr 9 <<<
(<<<) : (c -> d) -> (a -> b -> c) -> (a -> b -> d)
(<<<) g f x y =
g (f x y)
And now you can use it like this:
(g <<< f)