Removing D embedded in HTML feature

Bjoern nanali at nospam-wanadoo.fr
Tue Apr 1 11:03:42 PDT 2008


Sean Kelly schrieb:
> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1 at digitalmars.com)'s article
>> Scott suggested this be removed for D 2.0. Is anyone at all using it, or
>> have plans to use it, or can make a good case for keeping it?
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/html.html
> 
> Theoretically, it's a pretty cool feature.  It reminds me a lot of what
> Knuth talked about regarding Literate Programming.  However, I can't
> claim to have ever used it.  Perhaps this should be moved from the
> spec to an appendix and labeled as a suggested QOI feature.  You
> know, sometimes I feel that D is just moving too fast to really explore
> some of the ideas it contains.  This being one such idea.  It could
> fundamentally change how programs are written, but no one will
> know until some real time is spent with it.  Perhaps it's only useful
> for tutorials.
> 
> 
> Sean

interesting that the OBERON System supports literate programming since 
1987.  http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/
(not HTML based)

The implementation is IMO very smart OOP design, and beside that you can 
enhence the Oberon-Editor at runtime...
Bjoern
ps:Embedding D in HTML is not really a brandnew feature.




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