[bitc-dev] Implementation of indentation-aware parse

[Raoul Duke]

i think what i want (tongue somewhat in cheek / brainstorming) is
indentation sensitivity, since i do enjoy that style when i'm writing
me some haskell, but somehow magically with metadata (e.g. horrible
base-64 encoded stuff in a comment at the bottom of the file which is
automatically updated by the ide) so that emacs/eclipse/vim can still
get the auto-re-indentation correct.

blah.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap at eros-os.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Raoul Duke <raould at gmail.com> wrote:
>> as an aside, i've personally always found indentation sensitive things
>> frustrating at least in that i can't easily copy-and-paste...
>
> I have experienced that. I've also found that it's depressingly easy
> to forget to close a block, and that active support from the editor is
> fairly crucial. This may be a consequence of using syntactically
> blocked languages for so long. Other people obviously like the
> indentation-sensitized style. F# supports both styles, and a small
> majority of users seem to use the indentation-sensitive approach.
>
>
> shap
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