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. :( Besides, the idea would be not to use  , but rather some "indent paragraph" tag. Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ketil Malde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Sean L. Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Wolfgang Thaller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 1:06 PM Subject: Re: Use of tab characters in indentation-sensitive code > "Sean L. Palmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Why has HTML been out for many many years, and yet programming languages > > still use plain ASCII text exclusively? Don't we have similar needs as > > other electronic document manipulators? > > So we could write: > > foo bar = case bar of > Zot x -> ... > Pleb -> ... > > (Sorry, I couldn't help myself :-) > > -kzm _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
