Re: do-and-if-then-else modification

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:16:03AM +0000, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

isaac jones wrote:

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Iavor and I just made the trivial modification for DoAndIfThenElse

Any comments on this modification? How do people feel about the suggestion that we do it for case statements as well?

I'm happy to allow the change for if-then-else. The need for extra indentation there has annoyed me a few times.

The semicolon before the "else" is the most useful. Adding another before the "then" has less motivation.

However, I have never come across the case-of expression variation in practice. Indeed, the wiki page is not very clear on what exactly the problem is.

The argument regarding "case" is that if you add a semicolon before "then", it would be consistent to also add one before "of".