RE: un-layout program

does there exist a program that'll take a layed out haskell program and output one that uses braces and semis to delimit?

You can use GHC's hssource package to parse & then pretty-print the source code - the pretty printer can generate output with explicit layout tokens if you ask for it. The documentation is a bit lacking (well, there isn't any), so grab the source or browse it on the web here: http://cvs.haskell.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/fptools/hslibs/hssource/ Cheers, Simon