On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 07:53:08PM -0400, Richard Cobbe wrote:
Two questions:
And what I've concluded by reading this thread:
1) Are there wide-spread conventions in the Haskell community for how to indent an application expression that's split across multiple lines?
Well, there's general consensus in favor of indenting the continuing lines, but not a lot of consensus on how much, etc. Not surprising, and that's OK. Infix operators are more complicated.
2) If there is such a convention, how do I make Emacs's haskell-mode do it?
Doesn't seem to be possible, unless you're in a "do" block. To be clear: I wasn't asking how to make Emacs do all of my indentation automatically, as it can in Lisp and C modes. I realize that isn't possible. But since haskell-mode doesn't have very good support for the style I personally prefer (which is, in fact, consistent with Richard O'Keefe's favorite rule), I wondered if that might indicate that the community prefers a different style. Apparently not. Thanks to all who responded; it's been an interesting (if occasionally overly excited) discussion. Richard