[Haskell-cafe] GHC TV station?

[Bob Ippolito]

It looks like you may be trying to do this with a proportional font, which
is not going to work very well. You will have much better luck if you use a
fixed width font when you need to line up columns where some of the lines
have non-whitespace characters.

An alternative approach would be to have a line break immediately after
"do", so all of the lines that need to be indented have only preceding
whitespace. The hindent code formatter uses this style, as you can see in
any of its examples with do blocks, such as this:
https://github.com/commercialhaskell/hindent/blob/master/TESTS.md#function-declarations
-
when code is written in this style, the blocks will line up visually
whether or not the font is fixed width.



On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:02 AM Sylvester Hazel via Haskell-Cafe <
haskell-cafe at haskell.org> wrote:

> Hi Victor,
> It is frustrating that posting plain text is contorted (via nabble.com
> and then again in my mail.google.com account) - please see the
> attachment.
> I really have sent the right indentation copping the Hutton's script.
> Is it so difficult for you guys to replicate this obvious failure of GHC
> on "do notation" with white space?
> Regards,
> Sylvester
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 6:27 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane at dukhovni.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> > On May 15, 2018, at 12:13 PM, Sylvester via Haskell-Cafe <
>> haskell-cafe at haskell.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > strlen in Hutton 2ed 10.5 Derived primitives => run on Windows 7 Haskell
>> > Platform 8.2.2
>> > strlen :: IO ()
>> > strlen = do  putStr "Enter a string: "
>> >                   xs <-  getLine
>> >                   putStr "The string has "
>> >                   putStr (show (length xs))
>> >                   putStr " characters"
>> > ===================================================
>>
>> The above indentation looks wrong.  Try:
>>
>> ----------
>> $ cat foo.hs
>> strlen :: IO ()
>> strlen = do putStr "Enter a string: "
>>             xs <-  getLine
>>             putStr "The string has "
>>             putStr (show (length xs))
>>             putStrLn " characters"
>>
>> $ ghci foo.hs
>> GHCi, version 8.0.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
>> [1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( foo.hs, interpreted )
>> Ok, modules loaded: Main.
>> Loaded GHCi configuration from
>> /tmp/haskell-stack-ghci/05485125/ghci-script
>> *Main> strlen
>> Enter a string: foo
>> The string has 3 characters
>> *Main>
>> ----------
>>
>> If I incorrectly indent the subsequent lines:
>>
>> strlen :: IO ()
>> strlen = do putStr "Enter a string: "
>>               xs <-  getLine
>>               putStr "The string has "
>>               putStr (show (length xs))
>>               putStrLn " characters"
>>
>>
>> Then I see an error:
>>
>> foo.hs:2:13: error:
>>     Parse error in pattern: putStr
>>     Possibly caused by a missing 'do'?
>>
>> --
>>         Viktor.
>>
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