Re: [Haskell-cafe] what are the points in pointsfree?

On 12/14/06, Steve Downey wrote:

i'm not naive enough to think they are the composition function, and i've gathered it has something to do with free terms, but beyond that i'm not sure. unless it also has something to do with fix points?

The "points" are the arguments. The term comes from mathematics but I'm not sure where.