I wrote:
> > Can someone remind me why the "A close brace is also inserted whenever
> > the syntactic category containing the layout list ends" part
> > of the rule is there?
Lennart wrote:
> It's so you can write
> let x = 2+2 in x*x
> (and similar things)
and Arjan van IJzendoorn wrote:
> x = (3, case True of
> True -> 4)
>
> The ')' ends the syntactic category 'tuple'
So we get all this misery just so that people can cram
things onto fewer lines?
> let x = 2+2 in x*x
could be
> let {x = 2+2} in x*x
or
> let x = 2+2
> in x*x
and
> x = (3, case True of
> True -> 4
> )
would be fine.
I'd like to see a "-fuse-simpler-layout-rule"¹ option on the
compilers. . .
Jón
1. Why "-f" anyway? It took me ages to work out what
"-fallow-overlapping-instances" meant -- I wondered how
"fallow" could apply to overlapping instances.
--
Jón Fairbairn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
31 Chalmers Road [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cambridge CB1 3SZ +44 1223 570179 (after 14:00 only, please!)
_______________________________________________
Haskell mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
