[Haskell-beginners] let indenting problems

[Francesco Bochicchio]

2009/3/2 7stud <bbxx789_05ss at yahoo.com>

> I get indenting errors with the following attempts to use let:
>
... three failed exaopmles and a good one ...


But I would like to know how to use let.

 From beginner to beginner, they look to me more as syntax errors than
indentation problem.
 The syntax for let is
      let { decl ; ... decl }  in expression
 or in layout format
      let decl
           ...
           decl
      in expression

and your attempts do not respect this syntax. In all three cases, after  the
keyword 'in' you need a full expression,
and neither a where clause nor a set of matches are a full expression by
themselves. An expression is either a function apllication or a 'statement'
like if or case, or maybe something more I can't recall.

In my haskell exercises I really appreciate the fact that the haskell mode
of emacs has syntax hints (also
function hints for functions in the prelude). Even now that I know haskell
basic syntax, I find it helpful.

Don't know of any other editors with the same capability for haskell,
though, and if you are not an emacs user, learning
the not-so-standard ways of emacs might offset the benefits of having syntax
hints.

Ciao
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FB
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