Hi,

What is a good technique for breaking up long lines of code (for easier readability)? Indentation, the {- -} comments are probably having little effect.

For example, the following is perfectly valid: f x y = if x then y else not y The indentation rules are quite complex, but just type your code "sensibly indented" and it will probably just work. Thanks Neil On 4/2/06, miketerrance wrote:

I have been inserting {- -} comments but there must be a better way. Something like \ in Python?

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miketerrance:

What is a good technique for breaking up long lines of code (for easier readability)?

I have been inserting {- -} comments but there must be a better way. Something like \ in Python?

Can you give an example? Usually breaking long lines is just a matter of cutting on white space: lookupP (a,b) cmd = withModule ircCommands cmd (error $ "Parse error: " ++ show cmd) (\m -> do privs <- gets ircPrivCommands -- no priv commands can be composed when (cmd `elem` privs) $ error "Privledged commands cannot be composed" return $ \str -> catchError (process m a b cmd str) (\ex -> case (ex :: IRCError) of (IRCRaised (NoMethodError _)) -> process_ m cmd str _ -> throwError ex)) once things get too big, use 'where' clauses . Actually, use 'where' clauses when things aren't too big, anyway :) There's also a set of programming guidelines here: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Programming_guidelines -- Don