Jared Forsyth @jaredforsyth.com 路 Nov 20 utf8 is fun and all, but why stop there? I'm experimenting with having all strings be rich text strings (in my structured editor, for a language that is stored not a plain text but structured nodes) Thoughts? Should I go even harder?
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I'd be very cautious about bringing WYSIWYG into a code editor and even more into the language itself! BTW, I've always had a deep interest for structured text editors, I've even experimented with something meant for non tech people, but it's so hard to make it understandable for this crowd!
Whats the goal/target audience of this language?
This might go beyond your orig plan: How about supporting U+000B and/or U+000C for marking a jumps to/from a consecutive/preceding (possibly small) sepeate text window. So this becomes compatible with node editors too. And in-betweens to text-only (what I am interested in with my ALD concept).
I think the natural concern is: does this turn into Microsoft Word? Like think of every time you paste in formatted text and then have to puzzle over inconsistent whitespace between paragraphs... there's this hidden and fragile structure, information being kept out of sight