off-side rule
A lexical convention due to Landin, allowing the scope of declarations in a
program to be expressed by indentation. Any non-whitespace token to the left of
the first such token on the previous line is taken to be the start of a new
declaration. Used in, for example, Miranda and Haskell.
[P.J. Landin "The Next 700 Programming Languages", CACM vol 9 pp157-165, March
1966]
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