[Haskell] Beyond ASCII only editors for Haskell

Ketil Malde ketil+haskell at ii.uib.no
Sun May 22 17:00:49 EDT 2005


Mads Lindstrøm <mads_lindstroem at yahoo.dk> writes:

> But we do not have to leave out ASCII based editors - atleast to begin
> with. You can be showing functions like sqrt using real math symbol and
> at the same time store your documents as ordinary Haskell sources, which
> can be read by any editor. This would of cause require the editor to
> have a faily big understanding of the Haskell language. 

A related option is to use LaTeX style literate Haskell, and use a
LaTeX class that can pretty-print the code using non-standard
glyphs. (I've toyed a bit with this, without being entirely satisfied
by the results.  Send me a mail if you want the details.)

-kzm
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