Black holes as syntax, Was: Whitespace as syntax (was Re: Pyt hon Rocks!)

[Doug Stanfield]

May not be exactly what you mean but I'm sort of partial to Prograph,
<http://192.219.29.95/root/products/index.html> or
<http://192.219.29.95/prographcpx.html> with a picture.  O-O and dataflow
and a very cool IDE.  Always thought there would be some ideas there that
would work for an IDE for any language that was used for building
interactive GUI applications.

-Doug-

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Logajan [mailto:JamesL at Lugoj.Com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 6:49 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Black holes as syntax, Was: Whitespace as syntax (was Re:
> Python Rocks!)
> 
> 
> Wake me when the other thread dies.
> 
> Off topic:
> By the way, speaking of code blocks, does anyone know of any 
> languages that
> use blocks...literally? That is, given the prevalence of 
> GUIs, a development
> environment/language where code is contained in rectangles? 
> For example (the
> following will need to be viewed using a fixed-width font):
> 
> +====================+
> | def Func(a, q)     | 
> +====================+
> | if a == b          |
> | +----------------+ |
> | | xyzzy = Plunk()| |
> | | w = xyzzy + 42 | |
> | |                | |
> | +----------------+ |
> | else               |
> | +----------------+ |
> | | w = sqrt(-1)   | |
> | +----------------+ |
> | return q/w         |
> +--------------------+
> 
> Anyway, hope you get the idea. Many variations on how the boxes should
> appear are possible.
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