Solution for Fatal flaw in D design which is holding back widespread adoption(tm)
Walter Bright
newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Wed Mar 31 12:37:46 PDT 2010
Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> And here's an even crazier idea: Some sort of well-thought-out UCF format
> (Unicode Code Format) that is like plain-text, but includes a standard
> metadata header (typically hidden while editing) that can help sort all this
> stuff out, and maybe other things as well. Obviously it would require
> special support from compilers and editors, but if it was well-designed
> (including discouragement of proprietary extensions - don't want a repeat of
> HTML) then I think it would be worth trying to push.
Sorry, but anything that requires D users to use a custom editor for a special
source code file format is doomed to failure.
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