>> Argument from verbosity is seldom a good argument in programming.
>> Just because something is shorter doesn't necessarily mean it's better.
>
> I would say in this case it is, because all the extra stuff is just
> verbiage. It obscures the algorithm you're actually interested in, which
> is to make a new list where each element is the old list with 'bar'
> applied to it. All the stuff with the iterator and the types and all is
> just junk you have to repeat wherever you need to do this.

A far more relevant objection would be "how often does Haskell let you 
do less work?"

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