Haskell/Solutions/Indentation

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      Exercises
      In one word, what happens if you see something indented MORE?

      Nothing! The part that is indented more is a subexpression of the part that is indented less.

      Exercises
      Translate the following layout into curly braces and semicolons. Note: to underscore the mechanical nature of this process, we deliberately chose something which is probably not valid Haskell: 
        of a
     b
      c
     d
  where
  a
  b
  c
  do
 you
  like
 the
way
 i let myself
        abuse
       these
 layout rules

      At the moment of writing, I refuse!

      Exercises
      The if-within-do problem has tripped up so many Haskellers, that one programmer has posted a proposal to the Haskell prime initiative to add optional semicolons between if then else. How would that fix the problem?

      Then {if expr; then code; else other_code}, or

      if expr
then code
else other_code

      becomes legal.

      Last modified on 21 February 2007, at 11:43