[Haskell-cafe] A wish for relaxed layout syntax

[Bayley, Alistair]

> From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org 
> [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of 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
> 
> 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.


While we're on the my-syntax-is-better-n-yours wagon... this works in
Haskell *now*, without any changes to language syntax:

aName =
  x :
  y :
  z :
  []

(now, who do I credit for that? I forget...)

Alistair
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