At 2002-05-30 04:19, Johannes Waldmann wrote: >same here, for exactly these reasons. students get really confused. > >on the other hand, students regularily get confused by other things as well, >like homework assignments on formal languages, >so that alone is not enough reason to drop the subject altogether :-)
In the latter case, they are learning something useful. In the former case, the confusion emerges out of a useless property of the language. Let the students use {;} if it eliminates confusion, it's still perfectly good Haskell. I am certainly not proposing Haskell be modified to eliminate the layout option. I'm just curious as to why Haskell programmers choose to use it. -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell