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Re:Left to Right Programming by lock1 on Monday August 18, 2025 @11:01PM (#44947841)
Or "point-less" style ;)

Could you elaborate? AFAIK tacit programming tend to be scrambling around composition, paren, and args which makes left-to-right reading significantly harder for function with arity greater than 2.

I find Java's method reference or Rust's namespace resolution + function as an argument much better than Haskell tacit-style for left-to-right reading.

Re:Left to Right Programming by mrkeen on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @02:22AM (#44948775)
It's chaining functions with a dot, just like you do in typical OO languages.

When it's OO, it's a virtue that everyone loves - a "fluent interface".

When it's FP - oh it's unreadable! Why don't they just break every line out with an intermediate variable so I know what's going on!