Re:Reading Simple Haskell
by gmfawcett on Saturday December 09, 2017 @02:30PM
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Ocaml isn't whitespace sensitive (other than in the obvious sense, i.e., to separate tokens). You can write a whole module (or series of modules) on a single line if you want to.
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Re:Reading Simple Haskell
by marcosdumay on Saturday December 09, 2017 @06:20PM
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You can write a whole module in a single line of Haskell too. That's not the correct thing to test.
Really? How do you put multiple "import" statements on a single line in Haskell? Or a function signature followed by its definition?
Ocaml uses whitespace (including newlines) for exactly one reason: token separation. Indentation and line breaks are arbitrary, and can be replaced with spaces in any sequence of Ocaml statements. The same cannot be said for Haskell.
Re:Reading Simple Haskell
by dragonwriter on Sunday December 10, 2017 @12:20AM
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> Really? How do you put multiple "import" statements on a single line in Haskell?
With semicolons and curly braces; Haskell's newline/indent syntax is merely an aesthetic substitute for those.