As a non haskeller I do find my something constantly wishing that where expressions had been chosen instead if let/in. Let/in leads to a sort of vertigal zig zagging as you need to jump to the bottom then scan backwards for the supporting information. In other languages I've always ordered my methods as per the where expression (I think it was a practice I picked up from Kent Beck who recommended it for readability) and while I can order my functions this way at the module level I do miss it with let/in. The pattern Joey suggests seems good, the counter argument though is that you need to check the 'in' to know if that pattern is being used so you end up doing the zig zag read anyway.
That being said I favour the simplicity of a single form, I just wish where had been chosen instead of let/in. The argument regarding being able to use let/in with anonymous functions seems irrelevant as it's use would be a clear sign that the function should be broken out into a named function. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elm-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
