On 16/11/05, Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Indeed! I always use braces and semicolons with do-notation. You are > >> free to do so too! Nothing requires you to use layout. Indeed, you can > >> freely mix the two. > > > I would not recommend braces and semicolons, because these allow a bad > > layout (easy to parse for a compiler, but hard to read for a human), unless > > you invest the time to make a tidy layout despite the braces and > > semicolons. (So why not only make a tidy layout?) > > Unless you use a simplistic text editor, the braces and semi-colons allow > the text editor to do the layout for you. While I find the layout notation > attractively clean, I find the redundancy of autolayout+braces+semicolons to > save me from a lot of trouble. > If your editor is a little smarter still, it can do the Haskell layout without braces automatically too. The emacs mode helps with this. Yi/hIDE should be able to do it perfectly once it's in a generally usable state. :)
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