Could CSS give us semantic clarity? - Conal On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 11:58 AM, John A. De Goes <j...@n-brain.net> wrote:
> > The actual presentation and layout of widgets would be better handled by a > DSL such as CSS (which is, in fact, declarative in nature), while event > logic would be best handled purely in Haskell. > > Regards, > > John A. De Goes > N-BRAIN, Inc. > The Evolution of Collaboration > > http://www.n-brain.net | 877-376-2724 x 101 > > > On Feb 2, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Creighton Hogg wrote: > > 2009/1/29 Conal Elliott <co...@conal.net>: >> >>> Hi Achim, >>> >>> I came to the same conclusion: I want to sweep aside these OO, imperative >>> toolkits, and replace them with something "genuinely functional", which >>> for >>> me means having a precise & simple compositional (denotational) >>> semantics. >>> Something meaningful, formally tractable, and powefully compositional >>> from >>> the ground up. As long as we build on complex legacy libraries (Gtk, >>> wxWidgets, Qt, OpenGL/GLUT, ...), we'll be struggling against (or worse >>> yet, >>> drawn into) their ad hoc mental models and system designs. >>> >>> As Meister Eckhart said, "Only the hand that erases can write the true >>> thing." >>> >> >> I think working on a purely functional widget toolkit would actually >> be a really cool project. Do you have any ideas, though, on what >> should be the underlying primitives? >> >> The initial gut feeling I have is that one should just ignore any >> notion of actually displaying widgets & instead focus on a clean >> algebra of how to 'add' widgets that relates the concepts of >> inheritance & relative position. What I mean by inheritance, here, is >> how to direct a flow of 'events'. I don't necessarily mean events in >> the Reactive sense, because I think it'd be important to make the >> model completely independent of how time & actual UI actions are >> handled. >> >> Any thoughts to throw in, here? >> >> Cheers, >> C >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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