[Haskell-cafe] Why does Haskell have the if-then-else syntax?

[Andreas Rossberg]

Brian Hulley wrote:
> 
> Anyway, how about changing the syntax to:
> 
>    "if" exp "{" "then" exp ";" "else" exp "}"

Layout has to be triggered by distinguished keywords before the brace.

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Andreas Rossberg, rossberg at ps.uni-sb.de