[dllthomas]

Not really relevant to the broader discussion, but Haskell's whitespace sensitivity is defined in terms of automatic insertion of braces and semicolons, and you can write it that way instead if you want. A few people do write Haskell that way (SPJ maybe?) but the community is mostly united around using whitespace. That said, it's useful to know about the braces and semicolons if you're generating Haskell code, because that's often easier. Also occasionally at the GHCI prompt, where it will let you keep things on one line.