Thanks Rebecca and Brody, I did some additional experimentation and, of course indenting to under the "o" in "go" worked: dividedBy :: Integral a => a -> a -> (a, a) dividedBy num denom = go num denom 0 where go n d count | n < d = (count, n) | otherwise = go (n - d) d (count + 1) But under or before the "g" doesn't: dividedBy :: Integral a => a -> a -> (a, a) dividedBy num denom = go num denom 0 where go n d count | n < d = (count, n) | otherwise = go (n - d) d (count + 1) Oh and both the following work, at least for me on 8.2.1. Again the critical part was the "|" past the "g" in "go", but the "body" of "where" and "let" can be indented as little as one space, although it would be bad form. dividedBy :: Integral a => a -> a -> (a, a) dividedBy num denom = go num denom 0 where go n d count | n < d = (count, n) | otherwise = go (n - d) d (count + 1) dividedBy' :: Integral a => a -> a -> (a, a) dividedBy' num denom = let numerator = num denominator = denom go n d count | n < d = (count, n) | otherwise = go (n - d) d (count + 1) in go numerator denominator 0 So this make having to indent the "|" in a function seem doubly weird to me, but so be it :) Oh, and on the lastest version I have, haskell-programming-1.0RC2-ereader.pdf, the section Brody mentioned on page 40 seems to be on page 59 in the subsection titled "Troubleshooting" underneath section 2.7 "Declaring Variables. For other novices the haskell wiki indenation page is helpful: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Indentation There is even has an example that shows it's not always necessary to indent, just that things need to be aligned. On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 6:01 PM Brody Berg wrote:

I believe this is all covered starting on page 40 of the latest edition with examples just like Rebecca has shared.

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 17:35 Rebecca Li wrote:

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I believe for where (as well as with let, or any other special phrasing), if you're putting something on the same line with it, the subsequent lines have to begin after the end of the indentation of the word "where" or "let".

A version I got ghc to accept:

dividedBy :: Integral a => a -> a -> (a, a) dividedBy num denom = go num denom 0 where go n d count | n < d = (count, n) | otherwise = go (n - d) d (count + 1)

A similar example with let would be the following, where b lines up with a let a = blah b = blah'

but this would not work since b is only one level indented, not matching a. let a = blah b = blah

Hopefully the formatting goes through email..

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Wink Saville wrote:

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I created a file with the dividedBy example from Chapter 8.5 of "Haskell Programming from first principles" :

dividedBy :: Integral a => a -> a -> (a, a) dividedBy num denom = go num denom 0 where go n d count | n < d = (count, n) | otherwise = go (n - d) d (count + 1)

I get the following error when I load into ghci:

$ ghci chapter8_5-IntegralDivision.hs GHCi, version 8.2.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loaded GHCi configuration from /home/wink/.ghci [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( chapter8_5-IntegralDivision.hs, interpreted )

chapter8_5-IntegralDivision.hs:4:7: error: parse error (possibly incorrect indentation or mismatched brackets) | 4 | | n < d = (count, n) | ^ Failed, 0 modules loaded. λ>

But if I put the "go" function on its own line:

dividedBy :: Integral a => a -> a -> (a, a) dividedBy num denom = go num denom 0 where go n d count | n < d = (count, n) | otherwise = go (n - d) d (count + 1)

It does compile:

$ ghci chapter8_5-IntegralDivision.hs GHCi, version 8.2.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loaded GHCi configuration from /home/wink/.ghci [1 of 1] Compiling IntegralDivision ( chapter8_5-IntegralDivision.hs, interpreted ) Ok, 1 module loaded.

Or I can put the "where" on the previous line:

dividedBy :: Integral a => a -> a -> (a, a) dividedBy num denom = go num denom 0 where go n d count | n < d = (count, n) | otherwise = go (n - d) d (count + 1)

it also compiles:

$ ghci chapter8_5-IntegralDivision.hs GHCi, version 8.2.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loaded GHCi configuration from /home/wink/.ghci [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( chapter8_5-IntegralDivision.hs, interpreted ) Ok, 1 module loaded. λ>

Can someone shed light on what I've done wrong?

-- Wink

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