Haskell/Solutions/Indentation
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| In one word, what happens if you see something indented MORE? |
Nothing! The part that is indented more is a subexpression of the part that is indented less.
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Translate the following layout into curly braces and semicolons. Note: to underscore the mechanical nature of this process, we deliberately chose something which is probably not valid Haskell:
of a
b
c
d
where
a
b
c
do
you
like
the
way
i let myself
abuse
these
layout rules
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At the moment of writing, I refuse!
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The if-within-do problem has tripped up so many Haskellers, that one programmer has posted a proposal to the Haskell prime initiative to add optional semicolons between if then else. How would that fix the problem? |
Then {if expr; then code; else other_code}, or
if expr then code else other_code
becomes legal.
