[Haskell-cafe] Looking for a paper

Everyone knows that parentheses suck for function application. But I'm looking for a CS paper that argues that function application should have its own explicit syntax in a functional programming language. I believe, in the paper, that a dot "." was used, but this would be analogous to Haskell's "$" function, except that it would be made part of the language definition. I think it came up on this mailing list (where else would I have seen it?), and if anyone remembers the name or author I'd be grateful.