--- "Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer@verizon.net> 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/