[Haskell-cafe] If you'd design a Haskell-like language, what would you do different?

[Jesse Schalken]

IIRC, Scite's default configuration is with non-monospace font. I actually
found it quite appealing, and in fact forgot about it entirely after some
usage. It is much easier on the eyes to read. The difference is really
whether you care about aligning things mid-line or not, not to mention
editor support (i.e. not Vim or other terminal-based editor).

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Hans Aberg <haberg-1 at telia.com> wrote:

> On 21 Dec 2011, at 04:27, Ashok Gautham wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:17:32PM +0100, Hans Aberg wrote:
> >> The monospace characters U+1D670-1D6A3 might be used for keywords. Font:
> >>  http://www.stixfonts.org/
> >
> > I feel that monospace fonts should be used for all of programming. A
> > language could use Unicode symbols, but if it enforces typography, it
> > is destined to win an award for being really unusable
>
> I have some books from the 1980s which does not use monospace; it seems to
> be a later movement. Using it for all symbols would be awkward.
>
> Hans
>
>
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