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Re:The naked truth about writing a programming language (2014) by zzo38computer on Saturday May 02, 2020 @06:02PM (#23055260)
Is Haskell context-free if you don't use the indentation layout mode? Haskell does support using braces and semicolons too. However, this is not true of Python (as far as I know).
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Re:The naked truth about writing a programming language (2014) by massysett on Saturday May 02, 2020 @07:35PM (#23055726)
In theory Haskell supports braces and semicolons but in practice nobody uses them, leading to bugs like this one:

https://github.com/haskell/haddock/issues/12

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Re:The naked truth about writing a programming language (2014) by zzo38computer on Saturday May 02, 2020 @08:16PM (#23055925)
I do use braces and semicolons when programming in Haskell, and I have encountered that bug before, and I hope that they will fix it (although it still seems to be unfixed after six years, but a few people clearly do care, even if others don't care).
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