Sean 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.
But then you would be forced to use exactly those tools and/or that development platform. I have programmed in languages that extend beyond ASCII (most modern languages actually do, but that is another story.) One of these languages is APL or, more specifically, A+. Not a nice experience, and that is "just" an extension w.r.t. character table used. Once you leave the sheltered environment of a properly set up Emacs with proper fonts installed, it all looks like random junk. > 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. :( We guys try and some of us have used non-alphanumeric symbols, but they do not add much, unless one leaves the linear realm of text completely and enters the world of diagrammatic notations. > Besides, the idea would be not to use  , but rather some "indent > paragraph" tag. That would hardly make it more tractable outside the sheltered "Tag Editor," would it? foo bar = case bar of <indent />Zot x -> ... <indent />Pleb -> ... /David _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
