I think you mean "in a do". There is a proposal to fix this in Haskell'
cheers,
Fraser
On Sep 25, 2008, at 6:59, "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" wrote: On 2008 Sep 25, at 0:47, leledumbo wrote: consider this partial program:
if n>5 then
putStrLn "big"
else
putStrLn "small" this works fine in hugs, but in ghc I must change it to:
if n>5
then
putStrLn "big"
else
putStrLn "small" Actually, this also works: if n > 5 then
putStrLn "big"
else
putStrLn "small" Except in a "do", the "else" must be indented beyond the start of
the "if". I think Hugs is violating the Haskell98 layout rules. --
brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university
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