On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:09:33AM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > Henning Thielemann wrote: > >> Hence, spacing being significant is not Haskell-specific > > > > So Haskell is somehow BASICish -- how awful. > > No, you got it backwards. I was contrasting a BASIC dialect as an > example of a space-*in*sensitive language to just about every modern > language, including Haskell. In other words, Haskell was specifically > *not* like BASIC in my comparison. > > I believe early FORTRAN is another example of a spacing-*in*sensitive > language comparable to that BASIC dialect, and *not* similar to Haskell.
Aren't C and C++ space insensitive (except the preprocessor)? Best regards Tomasz _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
