There is a point made here about how Haskell's namespace handling makes monads e...

emiljbs · on Sept 17, 2013

Functions and other values are stored in separate namespaces so when you want to call a function that is stored in a "regular" variable you must write

(funcall (function variable) arg1 arg2 ... argn)

Or shorthand (funcall #'variable arg1 arg2 ... argn)

Basically, some people find this ugly, I mostly find it to say "HEY!! We're doing this specific thing right here". To me it's more helpful than ugly.