That's true. I don't like reading it, but I would prefer writing it. It's pretty much why in Haskell I write: foo $ bar $ do hello world rather than

That's true. I don't like reading it, but I would prefer writing it. It's pretty much why in Haskell I write: foo $ bar $ do hello world rather than foo $ bar $ do hello world You could easily have: foo bar mu be equivalent to foo bar mu but if you had foo bar bob zot mu And you rename foo, you're back to square one again (zot is no longer syntactical). Unless you just have a rule like: foobarmuzot bar bob zot mu means foobarmuzot bar bob zot mu But it seems comparatively difficult to read, and deceptive.