Why not use juxtaposition to indicate function application

[Prasad, Ramit]

> >> I confess i've indulged in Haskell and found
> >>      f a
> >> more readable than
> >>      f(a)
> >
> > Hmmm... What about:
> >
> >      f a b
> >
> > versus
> >
> >      f(a(b))
> >
> > or was it supposed to be read as
> >
> >      f(a)(b)
> >
> >
> > or as
> >
> >     f(a, b)
> >
> > ?-)
> 
> That would be
>    f (a b)          # Haskell
>    f(a(b))          # Python

I have not used Haskell so far, but in this case I think I prefer the
'Explicit is better than implicit.'

I would probably always forget if it should be 

f a b 

or

f ( a b )

Not to mention the first line look like text rather than a function call
because my mind tends to filter out whitespaces like that when reading.
I blame variable width fonts (and the mind being a strange thing).


Ramit


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