Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why does Haskell have the if-then-else syntax?

On 2006-07-27 at 13:01+0200 Tomasz Zielonka wrote:

But because if-then-else is an expression, there is another problem.

That was exactly my point when I made the muttering about self-bracketing (if ... fi, like everything else, is an expression in Algol68) all those years ago. I really regret not having been more forceful!

Also, after a few years of Haskell programming, I am still not sure how to indent if-then-else.

what I was alluding to in my footnote... Jón -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn at cl.cam.ac.uk