-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/23/10 14:56 , Isaac Dupree wrote:
On 08/23/10 02:33, John Smith wrote:
Why doesn't Haskell allow something like this?
fac 0 = 0 1 = 1 x = x * fac (x-1)
This would be clearer than repeating the function name each time, and follow the same pattern as guards and case.
Layout is detected and parsed when and only when it is preceded by 'where', 'let', 'do', or 'of'. So Haskell would have to have some such keyword to
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