When Does Point-Free Notation Make Code More Readable?

Re:When Does Point-Free Notation Make Code More Readable? by falcolas on Friday September 29, 2017 @10:55AM (#15365810)

So, you get a single point-free function, at the cost of two other point-full functions (at least one of which will utilize run-time introspection)? All you're doing is pushing the "point" somewhere else - in this case down onto Math.max.

Seems like a net loss of simplicity and readability.

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Re:When Does Point-Free Notation Make Code More Readable? by savanaly on Friday September 29, 2017 @11:39AM (#15366238)

That's only true if you never reuse Math.max. I believe the philosophy the OP is espousing is to write a few point-ful funcitons when necessary and then make the bulk of your business logic be recombinations of those in a point-free way, rather than redoing the points at every function the whole program wide.

I will agree it is a big loss of readability for someone who's not used to reading programs that are written like that. And that includes me. But I have faith it will get easier to read and eventually I will find it easier to read code written in that style than code written in the old style.

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