Simon Marlow wrote:

Well, simply extending the Haskell syntax to allow

\ p11 .. p1n -> e1 .. pm1 .. pmn -> em

(with appropriate layout) should be ok, but I haven't tried it. Guarded right-hand-sides could be allowed too.

Introducing layout after \ will break a lot of programs. For example, consider the way >>= is often formatted: f >>= \x -> g >>= \y -> ... I guess that's why Marcin suggested using a new keyword. - Andreas -- Andreas Rossberg, rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de "Computer games don't affect kids. If Pac Man affected us as kids, we would all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills, and listening to repetitive music."