From: David Teller <David.Teller@ens-lyon.org>
To: Caml list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Toplevel wishlist
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 22:32:46 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1137709966.5973.39.camel@titania> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43CFF2D6.4080108@andrej.com>
Le jeudi 19 janvier 2006 à 21:13 +0100, Andrej Bauer a écrit :
> 2) Do not hardcode stdin/stdout communication into toplevel. Instead,
> have a toplevel that communicates with the outside in a more abstract
> way. Thus it should be relatively easy to create toplevels that are
> equipped with line editing, that communicate through a graphical user
> interface (in a natural way), that talk via Texmacs, etc.
TeXmacs ? Talk about *extremely* pretty-printing :)
More seriously, do you have any application in mind ? I wonder what kind
of "abstract" information should be communicated.
> 3) Equip toplevel with pretty printers that can manage polymorphic
> types, and essentially make it possible to pretty print _everything_. It
> should be possible to create a toplevel linked to a graphical user
> interface that shows pictures and typeset text as results.
Nice idea, too. It reminds me of a Microsoft video I saw some time ago
about how The Next Big Thing In Programming Languages (tm) would be
getting rid of syntax.
Cheers,
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-19 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-19 20:13 Andrej Bauer
2006-01-19 21:01 ` [Caml-list] " Jonathan Roewen
2006-01-19 22:32 ` David Teller [this message]
2006-01-20 8:09 ` Daniel Bünzli
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