On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 05:03, Zhanyong Wan wrote:
Hi,
Ashley Yakeley wrote:
| The "layout" rules drive me nuts. You might prefer using parentheses and | semicolons, as I do:
I guess the point behind the layout rules is that anything violating such rules is considered bad programming style. I agree that Haskell compilers/interpreters should give more helpful error messages though (e.g. adding something like "Do you mean to align 'foo' with 'bar'?").
- Zhanyong
Here here. I think that the poor compiler error messages in Haskell are a very major hurdle to learning the language. I threw in the towel 6 months or so ago basically because I couldn't see my way through to debugging my programmes. But here i am back again. A glutton for punishment. Tom