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Re:When Does Point-Free Notation Make Code More Readable? by pacala on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:37AM (#15365643)
You still have to remember that pow has 2 args, and not 1 or 3, to get a basic sense of what kind of object f1 is. How about:

   f1 x = pow 2 x
   f2 x = pow x 2
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Re:When Does Point-Free Notation Make Code More Readable? by moomin on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:55AM (#15365820)
Kind of irrelevant in a language that has type declarations on the previous line.
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