A bandaid suggestion: longFunctionName various and sundry arguments = f where f | guard1 = body1 f | guard2 = body2 | ... where declarations
(Disclaimer: untested) As I understand it, there can be guards on the definition of f even if it takes no arguments. Those guards can reference your the various and sundry arguments. On 7/26/07, Stefan O'Rear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 02:56:57PM -0400, anon wrote: > Greetings, > I wish to be able to indent my code like so: >> longFunctionName various and sundry arguments >> | guard1 = body1 >> | guard2 = body2 >> | ... >> where declarations > That is, with guards and where clauses indented to the same level as > the function name. > > This seems like a perfectly reasonable indentation style to me. It > also happens to be the preferred style in Clean, another > layout-sensitive functional language. I believe it is not uncommon in > ML dialects as well. So why is it that I'm not allowed to use it in > Haskell? Because in Haskell everything that is lined up is a new logical line. Haskell requires all continuation lines to be indented: longFunctonName various and sundry arguments | guard1 = body1 | guard2 = body2 | .. where declarations As for "why", it's just a matter of Haskell Committee taste. Nothing too deep, just an arbitrary set of rules. Stefan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGqPS5FBz7OZ2P+dIRAgwbAKCl3ssl6X42VqSZJnhgKVH7WSzRXwCaA3x5 Ze0lGvx17IDrFXxBEvVxGeI= =5/To -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
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