As a recent Haskell learner, I found the indentation part of Haskell hard to learn and a little undiscoverable/hard to google.
The number of times I've used curly braces, single lines or expression substitution to bail me out is many...
The number of times I've used curly braces, single lines or expression substitution to bail me out is many...
As confusing as operator precedence can get, I do see the beauty in "programmable whitespace" but to get anywhere close in other language syntaxes you need to do even more perverse things like here [1]
If I did have to choose a different syntax for haskell it would be S-expressions rather than Algol so perhaps Hackett from Lexi Lambda
"This is not by coincidence: people learning Haskell usually have problems with point-free style not because of the composition operator per se, but because code is suddenly "reversed". Other communities such as F# have adopted the "pipe forward" operator instead of composition as the default style."
That's why i prefer the reverse application operator & to .