[Haskell-cafe] Re: Coding conventions for Haskell?

[Richard O'Keefe]

On Sep 27, 2010, at 5:31 AM, Maciej Piechotka wrote:
> May I ask clarification about formatting (according to your convention)
> 
> doSomething :: (a -> a -> a) -> a -> a -> a
> doSomething f x = f y y
>                  where y = f x x
> 
> i.e. single line function+where

There is a meta-rule that I use for indentation in a wide range of
languages:  where the line breaks are may depend on identifier spelling,
but what the indentation is should not.

In Haskell I sometimes violate that, but I usually end up regretting it.