[Haskell-cafe] Coding conventions for Haskell?

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Mon Sep 27 18:38:15 EDT 2010


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On 9/27/10 17:07 , Max Rabkin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 22:57, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
>>  data Foo a b =
>>      Foo    a   |
>>      Bar      b |
>>      Foobar a b
>>    deriving (Eq, Ord)
> 
> Also, either your pipes don't line up, or you violate your own rule

They line up fine in a fixed width font.  Programming in any
indentation-sensitive language in a proportional font leads inevitably to
use of tabs to make things line up properly, which leads directly to pain.

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