Thanks for the anserws. So I will write the braces and semicolons. It's better anyway in my opinion. I am not going to change my editing habits just to make hugs or ghc happy. Wether spaces or tabs are better in source files is a matter of taste and a language should not force me to use one or another. I can't help it, but to make the meaning of a program depend on the questions whether there are spaces or tabs in front of the line, and how many, seems silly to me. Sorry. Hal Daume III wrote:
so it needs to know where the boundaries between declarations are, hence the need for semicolons. therefore, if you have embedded lets, you need braces to delimit them:
let x = let y = z q = r in l in q
would be ambiguous without layout/braces&semis.
I don't see that. Sure, you need semis. But then let x = let y=z; q=r; in l in q or even let x = let y=z; q=r in l in q is just as unambiguous as (hypothetical) ( x = ( y=z; q=r ) l ) q I mean, you can see "let" as opening brace and "in" as closing brace. So no real need to write "let {" and "} in". Greetings, Ingo