22 Sep
2009
22 Sep
'09
10:49 p.m.
On Sep 22, 2009, at 8:01 PM, Jimmy Hartzell wrote:
I am in love with this proposal: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Accessible_layout_proposal
I hadn't read it before. Now that I have, I really do not like it. "Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon" as Alan Perlis once said, and to my taste this proposal definitely counts as cancer of the semicolon. In effect, its purpose is to overload vertical white space. Any time that you have something where you think you need this, it's likely that a better solution is to break what you are doing into smaller pieces.