layout rule infelicity

[Alexander V. Voinov]

Hi All,

Andrew J Bromage wrote:
> 
> G'day all.
> 
> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:10:03PM +0200, Johannes Waldmann wrote:
> 
> > Python has it as well (they stole it from Haskell?)
> 
> Python's layout rule looks more like Occam's than Haskell's, to my eyes.
> 
> Aside: Was Occam the first language of the post-punched-card era to use
> layout as syntax?

I fuzzily recall that SICStus Prolog silently tolerated omissions of
commas and dots, allowing for:

p(X) :-
	g(X,Y)
	h(Y)
p(X)

g(Y,Z) :-
	...

But Haskell already existed at this point.

Alexander