arthur miller [2019-12-14 04:40:30] wrote:
> To be honest my contact with Haskell broke once the university course, some
> 20 yrs ago was over, so I am a little bit illiterate about Haskells sexy
> packages. I just recalled that it was possible to invert text and code in
> Haskell. But cool.
The fact that it's written is Haskell is just incidental.
> Didn't know there is a package to let load org files directly either.
Hmm... The closest I can find is
https://github.com/jingtaozf/literate-elisp/
but it doesn't quite match what I think I was referring to.
Stefan
> Thanks for the answers.
> ________________________________
> Från: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Skickat: den 12 december 2019 18:29
> Till: arthur miller <address@hidden>
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> Ämne: Re: Christmas wish: Literate Elisp
>
>> My proposal is to slightly change Elisp parser to treat lines that start
>> with any other printable character but '(' as a start of comment and to
>> simply ignore the line, just as it treats ';' as a comment.
>
> The `sexpresso` Haskell package follows the same idea ;-)
>
> As for using it in Elisp: I don't think there's anything stopping anyone
> from making such a `literate-elisp-mode` and even arrange for `load` to
> handle such a file (just like there is already a package that lets
> `load` work directly on .org files).
>
> I'd welcome such a package in GNU ELPA.
>
>
> Stefan