the dreaded offside rule

[Malcolm Wallace]

Doaitse Swierstra <doaitse at cs.uu.nl> wrote:

> > '(case x of p -> e, 42)'.
> 
> Where one of course should have written:
>    (case x of p -> e; , 42)
> or even
>    (case x of p -> e;;, 42)

Hmm?  I'm mystified.  Are you saying that Simon's example is not valid
Haskell'98?

Surely the simplest and clearest way to re-write it to avoid the
parse-error layout rule is actually:

     (case x of { p -> e }, 42)

Regards,
  Malcolm