layout rule infelicity

[Ashley Yakeley]

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.

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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA