On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 02:56:57PM -0400, anon wrote:
longFunctionName various and sundry arguments | guard1 = body1 | guard2 = body2 | ... where declarations That is, with guards and where clauses indented to the same level as
Greetings, I wish to be able to indent my code like so: the function name.
This seems like a perfectly reasonable indentation style to me. It also happens to be the preferred style in Clean, another layout-sensitive functional language. I believe it is not uncommon in ML dialects as well. So why is it that I'm not allowed to use it in Haskell?
Because in Haskell everything that is lined up is a new logical line. Haskell requires all continuation lines to be indented: longFunctonName various and sundry arguments | guard1 = body1 | guard2 = body2 | .. where declarations As for "why", it's just a matter of Haskell Committee taste. Nothing too deep, just an arbitrary set of rules. Stefan