[Haskell-cafe] Pointfree composition for higher arity

[wren ng thornton]

Matt Hellige wrote:
> Thanks! I'm glad to know that people have found this approach useful.
> In cases where it works, I find it somewhat cleaner than families of
> combinators with (what I find to be) rather obscure names, or much
> worse, impenetrable sections of (.). We can write the original example
> in this style:
>   fun = someFun someDefault $:: id ~> id ~> runFun
> but unfortunately, while it's both pointfree and fairly clear, it
> isn't really an improvement over the pointful version, IMHO.

For something this simple it's not too helpful. But, one of the places 
it really shines is when dealing with newtypes in order to clean up the 
wrapping/unwrapping so they don't obscure the code.

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~wren