[Haskell-cafe] extending the notion of notation (was: extending Do notation)

[MigMit]

> The solution is to liberate programming from the plain text file.

Sounds a lot like "liberating literature from text". Sure, there are some kinds of media that are very non-textual... but they aren't literature anymore.

And no, whatever Lispers want to believe in, program is not AST. Program is TEXT. Even if it's a Lisp program.