[Haskell-cafe] Proposal for allowing more use of layout to avoid parentheses and commas

[Brian Hulley]

Hi,
Following a recent thread on the Haskell' mailing list about the nusiance of 
having to deal with commas in tuples (when cutting and pasting things to 
re-order the elements there's always a pesky comma left over in the wrong 
place), I've written up a proposal for a very simple syntax tweak that would 
allow you to use the layout rule for function arguments, tuple/list/record 
contents etc for some future version of Haskell at 
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Accessible_layout_proposal

This post is not intended to spark a lot of discussion just to point out the 
existence of the page for anyone interested. I've also added a link to all 
the new proposals from http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Future .

(If I don't reply to any follow up posts to this thread it's not because I'm 
ignoring them. It will just be because I have to try to get down to actually 
writing more of my program in the next few weeks, and I find thinking up 
ideas and reading posts, books, cooking, shopping, watching dvds etc, is 
infinitely more diverting than the painstakingly hard work of actual coding 
(though of course it's great in the rare occasions when things fall into 
place) ... ;-))

Brian.
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