Re: Solutions and Discussion for Perl Quiz of the Week #23

Mark Jason Dominus wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 05:07:21PM -0400, Daniel Martin wrote:
> 
>>>The problem with his code was that when Matthew Walton posted it to
>>>the mailing list, an extra space was inserted into the source.  Since
>>>haskell is (or at least, is usually) a language where indentation is
>>>significant, this meant it didn't compile.

D'oh!

> Haskell's base definition includes curly brace delimiters for the
> blocks, similar to Perl or C.  It only becomes whitespace-sensitive if
> you leave out the delimiters; then the indentation is used to infer
> the block structure.

I'll use curly brace syntax next time!