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
I personally like this style. It's a little hard to say why, but let me attempt. I think it's related to layout. Layout trained me to regard the end of lines as uninteresting, and the beginning as interesting. Thus, I forget to put separators at the ends of lines (freedom from the tyranny of the semicolon!), but I always notice if a comma or semicolon is missing at the beginning of a line. Its very obvious because they're all aligned vertically and, as I said, Haskell trains you to notice the leading edges of lines if you use layout. It also makes it very visually obvious where the list/tuple/ do block ends when you line up the brackets with the separators. IMO the patch/diff/darcs issue is a red herring. It sounds like an after the fact justification to me. Rob Dockins Speak softly and drive a Sherman tank. Laugh hard; it's a long way to the bank. -- TMBG