Not sure if this is what you mean, but while `foo.bar` tends to be "property access of the property `bar` of the record/object `foo`", in Haskell `foo . bar` is

Not sure if this is what you mean, but while `foo.bar` tends to be "property access of the property `bar` of the record/object `foo`", in Haskell `foo . bar` is "the function `bar` followed by the function `foo`". In the latter case it's written with spaces to look a bit more like the mathematical notation.