Simon Marlow writes:
> Bjarte Mayanja Oestvold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > GHC 2.10 complains about layout in a way that I think previous
> > versions did not (sorry not to be definitive here, previous versions
> > have been recirculated).
[..]
> I think this one should be allowed; I can't remember anything in the
> Haskell Report that says the lexical scoped must be strictly
> increasing in indentation. However, you could then do things like
>
> > f a
> > = do
> > case a of
> > (Just x, _) -> return x
> > _ -> error "hey"
>
> which is kind of hard to read...
This one bit me on some old (Gofer) code: I had
> let Foo x
> = bar
> in baz
GHC required
> let Foo x
> = bar
> in baz
for it to be accepted.
--KW 8-)
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