[Haskell-cafe] A wish for relaxed layout syntax

[Douglas Philips]

On 2007 Mar 29, at 12:26 AM, Nicolas Frisby wrote:
> I don't think that
>
> aName =
>  [ x
>  , y
>  , z
>  ]
>
> can be beat for adaptability (i.e. adding/removing/reorganizing
> results or _especially_ renaming the declaration). Doesn't do so hot
> regarding vertical space though...

IMHO (just as IYHO above), this cannot be beat:

aName = [
         x ,
         y ,
         z ,
         ]

is perfect. though there are many variations on where 'x ,' is placed  
relative to the opening square bracket. But... it requires that  
trailing commas be treated uniformly in the syntax, which they aren't  
right now. (The above would be legal Python code, so yes, my claim is  
hypothetical only its application to Haskell.)

	--Doug