11 Feb
2005
11 Feb
'05
3 a.m.
Matthew Roberts
[Point-free] compositions of functions with arity greater than 1, [...] compositions of sections of composition or application, arrow notation without the sugar, and so forth---will always be more difficult to read and understand than the direct version.
I have to agree (although I suspect few others will :))
I tend to agree, also. Type signatures help, of course. E.g. with the previously mentioned and rather cryptic function (.) . (.) .(.) I entered it into GHCi, and got :: forall a a b c a. (b -> c) -> (a -> a -> a -> b) -> a -> a -> a -> c and it suddenly is much clearer what it does. -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants