Huh, that seems patronizing. Well at least I can override it with {}. Thanks,
Frederik On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:42:53AM +0200, Lennart Augustsson wrote: > That's how it is defined in the Haskell definition. > > But there is a reason. The offside rule (or whatever yoy want to > call it) is there to give visual cues. If you were allowed to override > these easily just because it's parsable in principle then your code > would no longer have these visual cues that make Haskell code fairly > easy to read. > > -- Lennart > > Frederik Eaton wrote: > >Compiling the following module (with ghc) fails with error message > >"parse error (possibly incorrect indentation)", pointing to the let > >statement. The error goes away when I indent the lines marked "--*". > > > >But I don't understand how what I've written could be ambiguous. If I > >am inside a parenthesized expression, then I can't possibly start > >another let-clause. The fact that the compiler won't acknowledge this > >fact ends up causing a lot of my code to be squished up against the > >right margin when it seems like it shouldn't have to be. > > > >module Main where > > > >main :: IO () > >main = do > > let a = (map (\x-> > > x+1) --* > > [0..9]) --* > > print a > > return () > > > >Is there a reason for this behavior or is it just a shortcoming of the > >compiler? > > > >Frederik > >_______________________________________________ > >Haskell mailing list > >Haskell@haskell.org > >http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell > > > _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell