[Haskell-beginners] Offside rule for function arguments?

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 8/23/10 14:56 , Isaac Dupree wrote:
> On 08/23/10 02:33, John Smith wrote:
>> Why doesn't Haskell allow something like this?
>>
>> fac 0 = 0
>>     1 = 1
>>     x = x * fac (x-1)
>>
>> This would be clearer than repeating the function name each time, and
>> follow the same pattern as guards and case.
> 
> Layout is detected and parsed when and only when it is preceded by 'where',
> 'let', 'do', or 'of'.  So Haskell would have to have some such keyword to

I think the next question is "so how do guards work?"

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