Concerning
function argument argument2 | guard = body | guard = body
I feel that anything that prevents that kind of horror is a great benefit of the current rules and that this benefit must not be lost by any revision of the rules. The Fundamental Law of Indentation is "If major syntactic unit X is a proper part of major syntactic unit Y, then every visible character of X is strictly to the right[%] of the leftmost[%] visible character of Y." [%] If you are using a right-to-left script, switch "left" and "right" in that sentence. That is how indentation makes structure visible, and if you break that, you just plain aren't indenting. This isn't fuzzy, and it isn't aesthetic, it's simply that if you start things in the same column you are making it obvious to the reader than neither is part of the other. In the example about, that's not true. You might as well go around ending sentences with _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
