i think what i want (tongue somewhat in cheek / brainstorming) is indentation sensitivity, since i do enjoy that style when i'm writing me some haskell, but somehow magically with metadata (e.g. horrible base-64 encoded stuff in a comment at the bottom of the file which is automatically updated by the ide) so that emacs/eclipse/vim can still get the auto-re-indentation correct.
blah. On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Raoul Duke <[email protected]> wrote: >> as an aside, i've personally always found indentation sensitive things >> frustrating at least in that i can't easily copy-and-paste... > > I have experienced that. I've also found that it's depressingly easy > to forget to close a block, and that active support from the editor is > fairly crucial. This may be a consequence of using syntactically > blocked languages for so long. Other people obviously like the > indentation-sensitized style. F# supports both styles, and a small > majority of users seem to use the indentation-sensitive approach. > > > shap > _______________________________________________ > bitc-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev > _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
