The worst piece of syntax in Haskell

[Josef Svenningsson]

On 2/22/06, Claus Reinke <claus.reinke at talk21.com> wrote:
>
> > class Monad m
> >    => MonadPlus m
> >    where ...
> >
> > class Ord a
> >    => Ix a
> >    where ...
> >
> > instance Integral a
> >        => Eq (Ratio a)
> >        where ...
>
> still difficult?-) works just as well when the constraint lists get
> longer.


This is the style I've adopted and it makes things a little better but not
much. I still found it difficult to browse through my library even with this
kind of layout.

ps. I like that its the same way as for type signatures.
>

Well, it's good that the class contraint syntax for type signatures is
consistent with that of class and instance declarations. But it is still the
wrong syntax.

Cheers,

/Josef
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