It's good that you're familiar with the C++ "function object" concept, because that's a good introduction to Haskell's idea of what you can do with plain old functions... Specifically, currying, partial application and passing functions as arguments to other functions.
I may get my terminology wrong here, as I am no Haskell veteran myself. However, from my understanding of Haskell.
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