Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> It's not hard to find a text editor, use w.g. wily. It's widely available.
But it is hard to use some nonstandard (i.e. neither vi nor emacs)
editor just for one special kind of source code - it means to lose
all the keybindings, highlight settings, 100-lines-of-definition-macros
etc. which are usually the result of many years of work and ergonomical
optimization.
In particular, the section "Drawbacks and problems" of
http://www.cs.su.oz.au/~gary/wily/intro.html
says that wily is not for me :-)
I'd prefer to keep the language itself in ASCII (remember APL died for
doing otherwise) and have it support whatever character sets only as
data.
(One might allow alternative non-ASCII characters for people who have
them,
similar to `ä´ as a special code which behaves (more or less) equivalent
to `\"a´ in LaTeX).
In addition, leaving ASCII would break on DOS and Win3.x - it is not
probable that Bill Gates will go back and create UTF libraries for them.
Other not-very-recent systems might break as well.
Ralf
