[Haskell-cafe] Re: Richer (than ascii) notation for haskell source?

[Achim Schneider]

"Patrick Surry" <Patrick.Surry at portraitsoftware.com> wrote:

> Probably a silly question, but for me one of the nice things about
> Haskell is that it's a lot like just writing math(s).  But in contrast
> to math you lose a lot of notational flexibility being limited to the
> ascii character set in your source code.   
> 
> Don't know how I'd actually then write/maintain the source-code - some
> WYSIWYG editor or effectively writing it in '(la)tex'?  
>
Feel free to extend literal Haskell and e.g. LyX to support this.
Shouldn't be too much of work, translating math formulae into plain
Haskell code to keep it executable.

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