RE: The dreaded layout rule

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

> In other words, it is a bug (and GHC and Hugs don't do it
> right - see my previous message; from your comment, I
> presume HBC also doesn't follow the definition).  I think,
> the only Right Thing is to remove this awful rule (unless
> somebody comes up with a rule that can be decided locally).

Maybe so.  But (H98 editors hat on) this is more than a "typo".  
It's a Haskell 2  issue.  Perhaps there will be no fully conforming 
H98 compilers!

Simon