Your version, while not very different, is not easier to read than that of the parent post.

A few weeks into learning Haskell, reading x:xs will become second nature, so much so that "head" and "tail" become noise. (Also, "head" and "tail" are function names in the Prelude, but I'll assume you meant to write "hd" and "tl" or something like that).

    (Also, "head" and "tail" are function names in the Prelude, but I'll assume you meant to write "hd" and "tl" or something like that).

No, I overlooked that. Writing "hd" and "tl" would be opposite to my point! I think that "head:tail" is much more readable and much more informative than "x:xs".

Shadowing built-in names comes with it's own set of problems. (At least that's the opinion of the compiler writers that enable warnings about shadows by default.)