[Haskell-cafe] question automatic indentation (and so on)

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Montag, den 01.07.2013, 07:59 -0400 schrieb Richard Cobbe:
> How does the indentation tool know if (a b c) is supposed to be the next
> item in the do block, or merely a continuation of the previous application
> of f?

I would still expect the developer to write correctly intended Haskell,
so the the tool would have to employ a Haskell parser to get an AST
(with extra information on where comments were – probably the trickiest
part) and then pretty-prints it.

If it were not for comments, using haskell-src-exts would already
provide a first approximation to the problem, as shown in this script:
https://github.com/djv/small/blob/master/tidy.hs


Greetings,
Joachim

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