[m-dev.] Mercury front ends

[Robert Ernst Johann JESCHOFNIK]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Michael Day wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> are there any plans to experiment with alternative Mercury front ends? It
> seems that there is a lot of scope for XML marked up source, for instance:

The one thing that I would really like to see (and have considered going
ahead and having a crack at implementing myself) is literate source files.
If these are implemented, then you can write your program in whatever
crazy new aged whizz bang markup language of your choice, and it will
work. Your program will be a compilable and also presentable document.

Haskell does this, and I have seen programs that are actualy LaTeX
documents. I think this would be far more usefull than trying to force
people to use XML or whatever - and also does not lock programmers into
using a particular editor.


Rob

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