Re: Re : [Haskell-cafe] Indentation woes

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 05:34:32PM -0400, anon wrote:

2007/7/26, Stefan O'Rear :

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As for "why", it's just a matter of Haskell Committee taste. Nothing too deep, just an arbitrary set of rules. That's not much of an explanation, is it? I imagine someone must have given the matter some thought before describing the layout rule in great details in the language report. Perhaps there was a perfectly good reason to preclude this kind of code, but I'm afraid I do need a reason if I am to understand why. And if it turns out that there really is no such reason, would it be terribly presumptuous of me to suggest that the rules be changed to accomodate this particular style in Haskell' or a future revision of the language? I guess it would, but one can always hope.

Why do you think it should be allowed? The current rules are arbitrary, but they are quite simple; we don't want to add an ad-hoc exception just for this. Out of curiousity, what do you find objectionable about (legal): function argument argument2 | guard = body | guard = body as compared to (currently illegal): function argument argument2 | guard = body | guard = body Stefan