Re: [Haskell-beginners] Offside rule for function arguments?

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 09:33:13AM +0300, 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.

Good question. I don't know of any particular reason. -Brent