I think I could get used to the second, but I'm not yet. At a glance, it looks like Erlang or Haskell, but that just shows you how little I know about those languages.
It's tough to strike a balance between brevity and familiarity sometimes.
It's tough to strike a balance between brevity and familiarity sometimes.
adder = (+)
The difference in style is similar to how the invention of punctuation, spaces, capitalization and paragraphs made writing much easier to read, and shorthand is annoying as all get out. It is certainly possible to misuse punctuation, spacing and paragraph breaks to the point where they make writing harder to read, but most often the writing wouldn't be good without them either.