RE: [Haskell-cafe] Comma in the front

On Jul 12, 2006, at 9:18 PM, Joel Reymont wrote:

Are cool kids supposed to put the comma in front like this?

, foo , bar , baz

Is this for historical or other reasons because Emacs formats Haskell code well enough regardless.

Thanks, Joel

These layouts feel a bit artificial to me. I am quite partial to python's list syntax - a trailing comma is optional. meaning you can write [ a, b, c, ] I'm surprised this approach isn't more widespread - Are there reasons why haskell syntax could not/should not be defined this way? Tim