Le jeudi 19 janvier 2006 à 21:13 +0100, Andrej Bauer a écrit :
> 2) Do not hardcode stdin/stdout communication into toplevel. Instead,
> have a toplevel that communicates with the outside in a more abstract
> way. Thus it should be relatively easy to create toplevels that are
> equipped with line editing, that communicate through a graphical user
> interface (in a natural way), that talk via Texmacs, etc.

TeXmacs ? Talk about *extremely* pretty-printing :)

More seriously, do you have any application in mind ? I wonder what kind
of "abstract" information should be communicated. 

> 3) Equip toplevel with pretty printers that can manage polymorphic
> types, and essentially make it possible to pretty print _everything_. It
> should be possible to create a toplevel linked to a graphical user
> interface that shows pictures and typeset text as results.

Nice idea, too. It reminds me of a Microsoft video I saw some time ago
about how The Next Big Thing In Programming Languages (tm) would be
getting rid of syntax.


Cheers,
 David
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