At 2002-05-30 02:54, Lennart Augustsson wrote: >If you look at C (& offspring), it's not the {;} that makes the code >readable, it's the indentation that does. So why not acknowledge that?
In C, the indentation is an important visual clue, but there are many different indentation styles. It's the braces that actually tell you the beginning and end of a block. I might also use indentation for non-blocks, for instance: void foo (int n) { if (n > 0) bar ( "Sproing!", // title getBounds(n), // bounds true, // bordered true, // bright false, // not transparent true, // use v2 appearance 5, // shadow size null // next ); } Equally, I always indent my braced blocks in Haskell as well as C (& o). If you're used to braces, complicated Haskell expressions with layout look confusing, since it's not immediately clear which indentation style the layout rules are trying to enforce. It's also not clear to the unlearned how best to split an expression onto two lines, or how it interacts with parentheses, etc. And then there are those nasty little infelicities... -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell