On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 05:03, Zhanyong Wan wrote: > Hi, > > Ashley Yakeley wrote: > > | The "layout" rules drive me nuts. You might prefer using parentheses and > | semicolons, as I do: > > I guess the point behind the layout rules is that anything violating such > rules is considered bad programming style. I agree that Haskell > compilers/interpreters should give more helpful error messages though (e.g. > adding something like "Do you mean to align 'foo' with 'bar'?"). > > - Zhanyong > Here here. I think that the poor compiler error messages in Haskell are a very major hurdle to learning the language. I threw in the towel 6 months or so ago basically because I couldn't see my way through to debugging my programmes. But here i am back again. A glutton for punishment.
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