On Tuesday 20 January 2009, Kari Hoijarvi wrote: > Dan Pascu wrote: > > On Friday 16 January 2009, Kari Hoijarvi wrote: > >> For example whitespace formatting patches would simply go away. > > > > Are you suggesting here to deliberately ignore explicit indentation > > changes made by the user? > > Yes, in the sense that microsoft intentional programming environment > did it' > > Program is stored as a tree, and the IDE pretty prints it, the way you > choose to. It can also do a lot more, like display constant bitmap > files as thumbnails, translated strings in place, etc. > > So there are no files either. Source code order goes away: if it does > not matter in which order program elements are introduced, the IDE can > sort them as you wish.
You know, there are languages where the indentation level is relevant and changing it has a meaning that cannot be ignored. -- Dan _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
