On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:21:08PM +0200, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
Hi,
I often run into the following issue: I want to write a list of lengthy items like this
mylist = [ quite_lengthy_list_item_number_one, quite_lengthy_list_item_number_two, quite_lengthy_list_item_number_three ]
With the current layout rules this is a parse error (at the closing bracket). Normally I avoid this by indenting everything one level more as in
mylist = [ quite_lengthy_list_item_number_one, quite_lengthy_list_item_number_two, quite_lengthy_list_item_number_three ]
but I think this is a little ugly.
Same issue comes up with parenthesized do-blocks, I would like to write
when (condition met) (do first thing second thing )
So my wish is for a revised layout rule that allows closing brackets (of all sorts: ']', ')', '}') to be on the same indent level as the start of the definition/expression that contains the corresponding opening bracket.
this would be fairly simple by adding a rule to the parser grammer like so list := '[' item* ';'? ']' as in, allow an optional semicolon before any bracketing closing token. as for the other example, I tend to do when (condition met) $ do first thing second thing though, the semicolon thing above would allow the layout you want too. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈