--- "Sean L. Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joking aside, surely you intelligent people realize > that the internals of a > file format have nothing whatsoever to do with the > user interface of the > editing tool. Something like this would be > completely transparent *if* you > used the right tools. > > This just shows how deeply ingrained the ascii plain > text mindset is in the > programming community. I don't expect anything like > this to ever fly, for > this reason. You guys won't let it. :(
Mmmmm... The dark side clouds everything... Seriously, Plain Text (TM) is a proven technology for editing code, and leveraging the power of XML just to improve over indentation might be off-target. Seriously, programs can (or should...) be encoded at a level of abstraction that matches their semantics more closely than matrix of caracters, and you're right to raise the issue. Seriously, Haskell is already so powerful (read: enables the programmer to define it own astractions) that any layer above it is easily useless. Obviously, something can be done though; http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/refactor-fp/hare.html Just some thoughts... Cheers! JP. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
