"Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> And here's an even crazier idea: Some sort of well-thought-out UCF format >> (Unicode Code Format) that is like plain-text, but includes a standard >> metadata header (typically hidden while editing) that can help sort all >> this stuff out, and maybe other things as well. Obviously it would >> require special support from compilers and editors, but if it was >> well-designed (including discouragement of proprietary extensions - don't >> want a repeat of HTML) then I think it would be worth trying to push. > > Sorry, but anything that requires D users to use a custom editor for a > special source code file format is doomed to failure.
I was thinking of it as whole-programming-world kind of thing not specific to any langauge, kind of like how UTF has been replacing ASCII and code pages (although this would use UTF). Basically kind of like a programmer's RTF (although it obviously wouldn't involve setting fonts and colors, but rather things like tab settings). I agree that getting it to actually happen would be an uphill battle (especially if there's no large organization backing it :( ), but it could be worth the potential benefits if it were to happen.
