[Haskell-beginners] anonymous arguments

[harry]

Tony Morris <tmorris <at> tmorris.net> writes:
> 
> 
> (`foo` 3)
> Scala is very limited when it comes to this point free code. 
>
> On 29/12/2013 10:17 PM, "harry" <voldermort <at> hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there any reason not to include Scala-like anonymous arguments in
> Haskell? For example, I would like to write
>   map (\x -> foo x 3)
> as
>   map (foo _ 3)
> The named argument in this and similar cases adds nothing but visual and
> namespace clutter.

How about a slightly more complex example?

  map (\x -> foo 4 'f' (bar x) 5 'j')

There comes a point where point-free notation becomes unreadable.