[Haskell-cafe] Is there a null statement that does nothing?

[Thomas DuBuisson]

If its monadic code then use Control.Monad.when.

If its pure code then omitting the 'else' clause makes no sense
what-so-ever; to omit the else you must know the boolean is always true so
why have the if?  See the "Common Misunderstandings" [1] page I put together
in response to seeing one too many people trip over exactly this issue.

Thomas

[1] http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Common_Misunderstandings

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:43 PM, michael rice <nowgate at yahoo.com> wrote:

> It looks like both the THEN and the ELSE in an IF expression must each have
> an expression. What's a graceful way to do nothing in either or both slots,
> kind of like the Fortran CONTINUE statement.
>
>   --mr
>
> ================
>
> [michael at localhost ~]$ ghci
> GHCi, version 6.10.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
> Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
> Loading package integer ... linking ... done.
> Loading package base ... linking ... done.
> Prelude> if (1==1) then else
>
> <interactive>:1:15: parse error on input `else'
> Prelude> if (1==1) then True else
>
> <interactive>:1:24: parse error (possibly incorrect indentation)
> Prelude> if (1==1) then True else False
> True
> Prelude>
>
>
>
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