I've found that I really don't like this, aesthetically (mixing nesting styles in code looks bad)

Also, whitespace based indentation works in Python because Python statements tend to be fairly short. (The python indentation rules are easily understood.) Haskell layout has been somewhat more difficult to understand (at least for me). I have been writing Haskell code and usually it works, but there have been problems due to failure to indent when I should'v, which were incredibly confusing to debug.

In python, it's hard to fuck it up: after a colon, you always newline and indent.

> In python, it's hard to fuck it up: after a colon, you always newline and indent.

But what about:

    if True: print "Yep"

;)

Get with the program:

if True: print("Yep")

Don't do that: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

Some features of Python are only really meant to be used at interactive prompts, like import STAR ( I can't write star?)

Completely agreed; I was just pointing it out.

Completely agree. The main reason for my preference is that one of the things I hate most in C-style languages is that one-line functions take up three or four lines (depending on whether or not you use K&R style). This greatly increases the amount of scrolling you have to do.

Put it all on one line then! :) I just grepped some of my C/C++ code and my one-liners consistently look like this:

virtual const std::string& getCommand() const throw() { return m_command ; }

Yeah, that works for really short methods, but for anything even a little more complex you're just replacing vertical scrolling with horizontal scrolling.

That's true for one-liners in any language.

Not necessarily. In Haskell the oneliners are frequently short enough to fit on one screen.

For example, I recently needed to do some Run-Length Encoding:

    import Control.Arrow
    import Data.List
    
    encodeRLE :: (Eq a) => [a] -> [(Int, a)]
    encodeRLE = map (length &&& head) . group
    
    decodeRLE :: [(Int, a)] -> [a]
    decodeRLE = concatMap (uncurry replicate)