Language.Haskell.Parser and layout rules

Malcolm Wallace Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
Thu Feb 17 09:17:42 EST 2005


Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> writes:

> The Report (section 9.3, especially notes 1 and 2) says "A nested context
> must be further indented than the enclosing context", so this is illegal.
> GHC and Hugs have innovated here, ...

I see you are using "innovated" here in the Microsoft sense, meaning
"undocumented and incompatible departure from standards".  :-)

Regards,
    Malcolm


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