On 27/09/2010 02:44 PM, Daniel Fischer wrote:
data Foo a b = Foo a | Bar b | Foobar a b
avoids this, at least for the type name "Foo". Tastes vary, but I find that ugly. I much rather have the '=' aligned with
On Monday 27 September 2010 14:52:18, Henning Thielemann wrote: the '|'.
data Foo a b = Foo a | Bar b | Foobar a b deriving (Eq, Ord)
There, that looks good.
Tastes do indeed vary. To me, both of these are incorrect, and the correct way is data Foo a b = Foo a | Bar b | Foobar a b deriving (Eq, Ord) It honestly annoys me that Haddock disagrees with me on this point... (It also irritates me that almost all Haskell identifiers are camel-case, but with an inital lowercase letter. IMHO, the correct thing to do is use camel-case for identifiers that must begin with an uppercase letter, and underscores for identifiers that must begin with a lowercase letter. Of course, my opinion has no effect on the Prelude and so forth.) I generally try to structure my code so that all blocks indent by 2 spaces, and the size of indentation never depends on the length of an identifier. In other words, none of this: foo x y z = do thing1 x thing2 x y thing3 z ... Do that a few times and you rapidly end up with lines 300 characters wide. (!) Instead, I prefer foo x y z = do thing1 x thing2 x y thing3 z ... But, as they say, everybody has their own ideas about style. I think the most important point must surely be that any style is applied *consistently*...