On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 23:29 -0700, Meikel Brandmeyer wrote: > Hi, > > Disclaimer: personal opinion following... > > I'm sorry. I don't get the elegance of point-free style. > > In mathematics f denotes the function, while f(x) denotes the value f > takes over x. This is actually a nice and easy to understand notation. > But why do I have to clutter my clojure code with `partial`s and > `comp`s because of that? In Haskell, where `partial` is automatic and > `comp` is a dot, this is maybe elegant. But not here. > Plus, in Haskell, one can query the type signature of the partial functions, and try and make sense of what they do. Even there, points-free code can be hard to read. In a Lisp dialect like Clojure, it's probably even worse.
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