I prefer the other style--as do others, evidently (see the example in my first reply.) I agree that this was a good discussion, but let's not conclude so easily that the entire community is in favor of one thing or the other.
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Richard Cobbe <co...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 07:53:08PM -0400, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > Two questions: > > And what I've concluded by reading this thread: > > > 1) Are there wide-spread conventions in the Haskell community for how to > > indent an application expression that's split across multiple lines? > > Well, there's general consensus in favor of indenting the continuing lines, > but not a lot of consensus on how much, etc. Not surprising, and that's > OK. Infix operators are more complicated. > > > 2) If there is such a convention, how do I make Emacs's haskell-mode do > it? > > Doesn't seem to be possible, unless you're in a "do" block. > > To be clear: I wasn't asking how to make Emacs do all of my indentation > automatically, as it can in Lisp and C modes. I realize that isn't > possible. > > But since haskell-mode doesn't have very good support for the style I > personally prefer (which is, in fact, consistent with Richard O'Keefe's > favorite rule), I wondered if that might indicate that the community > prefers a different style. Apparently not. > > Thanks to all who responded; it's been an interesting (if occasionally > overly excited) discussion. > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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