layout rule infelicity

Ashley Yakeley ashley@semantic.org
Thu, 30 May 2002 04:37:07 -0700


At 2002-05-30 03:59, Ketil Z. Malde wrote:

>Short answer: What's wrong with it is that humans use layout to infer
>the semantic meaning, 

No... layout by itself can't be trusted. It's only a clue. One needs to 
learn the precise Haskell-specific layout rules, and they're not obvious.

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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA