Mads Lindstr�m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But we do not have to leave out ASCII based editors - atleast to begin > with. You can be showing functions like sqrt using real math symbol and at > the same time store your documents as ordinary Haskell sources, which can be > read by any editor. This would of cause require the editor to have a faily > big understanding of the Haskell language. And it can only go so far, some > math stuff will require richer formats that cannot be translated nicely to > ordinary Haskell sources.
This has been done, Luke Gorrie wrote pretty-lambda.el: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PrettyLambda Jorge Adriano did something similar for Haskell with x-symbol: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2002-August/003237.html Pugs is doing this directly: http://use.perl.org/~autrijus/journal/24762 For more exciting possibilities, the plan for the Yi editor is to have parser-based modes. That would allow you to do much more than what's mentioned above. -- It seems I've been living two lives. One life is a self-employed web developer In the other life, I'm shapr, functional programmer. | www.ScannedInAvian.com One of these lives has futures (and subcontinuations!)| --Shae Matijs Erisson _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
