> 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?
Redundancy maybe? What's wrong in having both layout and punctuation? For instance, then you can have an emacs mode that handles the layout given the punctuation. I used to believe in layout, but got converted the other way round. We used Scala, a new functional/object oriented language we design, in a course with 100+ students. Scala used to have layout rules somewhat like Haskell's. In our experience it was the single thing that confused students most. Problems were: (1) Students did not properly indent their code. (2) Students used editors that disagreed in the handling of tabs. (3) Students wrote multi-line statements that started at the same column. I came away with with the learning experience that a little redundancy in the syntax is a good thing. Cheers -- Martin _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell