[Haskell-cafe] Re: Indentation woes

[Stefan Monnier]

> I wish to be able to indent my code like so:
>> longFunctionName various and sundry arguments
>> | guard1 = body1
>> | guard2 = body2
>> | ...
>> where declarations
> That is, with guards and where clauses indented to the same level as
> the function name.

Sounds like a generalization of the idea of allowing indentation like

     if foo then bar
     else baz

in `do' notation.  It might probably be obtained similarly by just adding
a few optional semi-colons at the right place in the BNF rules.  whether
those optional semi-colons will render the grammar significantly
more complex, I don't know.


        Stefan