Re: [Haskell-cafe] Code walking off the right edge of the screen

Deniz Dogan wrote:

I (too) often find myself writing code such as this:

if something then putStrLn "howdy there!" else if somethingElse then putStrLn "howdy ho!" else ...

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So how do I make code like this prettier?

If it's a function, you can use guards: foo :: ... foo something somethingElse | something -> putStrLn "howdy there!" | somethingElse -> putStrLn "howdy ho!" | otherwise -> ... -- Früher hieß es ja: Ich denke, also bin ich. Heute weiß man: Es geht auch so. - Dieter Nuhr