Re: [Haskell] offside rule question

The offside rule is patronizing. :) It tries to force you to lay out your program in a certain way. If you like that way, good. If you don't like that way, you can use {;} as you say. -- Lennart Frederik Eaton wrote:

Huh, that seems patronizing. Well at least I can override it with {}.

Thanks,

Frederik

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:42:53AM +0200, Lennart Augustsson wrote:

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That's how it is defined in the Haskell definition.

But there is a reason. The offside rule (or whatever yoy want to call it) is there to give visual cues. If you were allowed to override these easily just because it's parsable in principle then your code would no longer have these visual cues that make Haskell code fairly easy to read.

-- Lennart