[Guido]
I’ve never been able to remember whether (f@g)(x) means f(g(x)) or g(f(x)). That pretty much kills the idea for me.
[David Mertz]
Well, it means whichever one the designers decide it should mean. But obviously it's a thing to remember, and one that could sensibly go the other way.
On the other hand, when I showed an example using filter() a couple days ago, I had to try it to remember whether the predicate or the iterable came first. Lots of such decisions are pretty arbitrary.
Best I know, f@g applies g first in every language that implements a composition operator, and in mathematics. While that may be arbitrary, it's easy to remember: (f@g)(x) "looks a heck of a lot more like" f(g(x)) than g(f(x)) because the former leaves the identifiers in the same order.