On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 02:56:57PM -0400, anon wrote: > Greetings, > I wish to be able to indent my code like so: >> longFunctionName various and sundry arguments >> | guard1 = body1 >> | guard2 = body2 >> | ... >> where declarations > That is, with guards and where clauses indented to the same level as > the function name. > > This seems like a perfectly reasonable indentation style to me. It > also happens to be the preferred style in Clean, another > layout-sensitive functional language. I believe it is not uncommon in > ML dialects as well. So why is it that I'm not allowed to use it in > Haskell?
Because in Haskell everything that is lined up is a new logical line. Haskell requires all continuation lines to be indented: longFunctonName various and sundry arguments | guard1 = body1 | guard2 = body2 | .. where declarations As for "why", it's just a matter of Haskell Committee taste. Nothing too deep, just an arbitrary set of rules. Stefan
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