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No, they both read equally "left to right". What GP asks, why "a : A" instead of "A a" and "fn -> A" instead of "A fn" has billions of right answers, but "readable left to right" is not one of them.



Try adding some parameters that function! Including more function parameters.


Sure.

    A f(a,b,c)
becomes

    A f(a,b,c,d)
and

    f(a,b,c) -> A
grows to

    f(a,b,c,d) -> A




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