On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Deniz Dogan<deniz.a.m.do...@gmail.com> wrote: > I (too) often find myself writing code such as this: > > if something > then putStrLn "howdy there!" > else if somethingElse > then putStrLn "howdy ho!" > else ... > > I recall reading some tutorial about how you can use the Maybe monad > if your code starts looking like this, but as you can see, that > doesn't really apply here. "something" and "somethingElse" are simply > booleans and each of them have different actions to take if either of > them is True. > > So how do I make code like this prettier?
I'm not entirely sure if this is haskell'98, but GHC seems to support this sort of layout: >>>>> main = do <some computation> if something then someOtherComputation else do <continue at the same indentation> <<<<< Antoine _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe