Re: layout rule infelicity

2002-05-30 Thread Frank Atanassow
[redirected to haskell-cafe] Ashley Yakeley wrote (on 30-05-02 03:18 -0700): 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

Re: layout rule infelicity

2002-05-30 Thread Eray Ozkural
On Thursday 30 May 2002 13:43, Frank Atanassow wrote: Anyway, I have the feeling that, for every person on this list who complains about layout being unintuitive, there are 10 people who would say the opposite. Shall we take a poll? It's not unintuitive, it's counter-intuitive. :) The errors

Re: layout rule infelicity

2002-05-30 Thread Abraham Egnor
Just to add my voice to the din... I come from a c/c++/java background, and I taught myself haskell. The layout rules were the part I had the least problem with. I'd prefer that if any change is made it's one that adds options, not removes them. I'm confused as to the source of the problem,

Naming conventions for compiler options [Was: layout rule infelicity]

2002-05-30 Thread oleg
[redirected to haskell-cafe] Jón Fairbairn wrote: 1. Why -f anyway? It took me ages to work out what -fallow-overlapping-instances meant -- I wondered how fallow could apply to overlapping instances. I believe the authors of GHC followed the naming conventions of GCC, which can be gleaned

Re: Naming conventions for compiler options [Was: layout rule infelicity]

2002-05-30 Thread Ashley Yakeley
At 2002-05-30 16:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Wmissing-protons Compiles BASIC? -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

RE: Naming conventions for compiler options [Was: layout rule infelicity]

2002-05-30 Thread Jay Allen
: Re: Naming conventions for compiler options [Was: layout rule infelicity] At 2002-05-30 16:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Wmissing-protons Compiles BASIC? -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA