David Peter

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> if it where a special parser feature what would happen when you do > > ``` > let k = 3 > 20k > ``` That is a good...

> I was thinking about only making it significant for `k`, `M`, etc, not for other identifiers right. I think it's a viable option. I really dislike syntactic quirks in...

Thank you for the idea. That would be possible. > Just a thought, not sure whether this is better enough than `20e3` to be worth it. Right. Let's maybe reopen...

> I wonder how vertical alignment can work in the face of errors in the results pane. They usually take up many more lines than the input that generated them....

Maybe we need multiple editors? One for each input?

Maybe it's useful to do a bit of research into similar tools (see #536, #19). It's not like we *have* to use ace.js either. It's just something that worked reasonably...

> Should we maybe open a discussion about which kinds of UIs/frontends are desired and how to prioritize their development? Sounds great. The following Numbat "frontends"/clients currently come to mind:...

Not really an answer to your post, but maybe something else that might be interesting: This is the editor that is being used in VS code. It's open source: https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/....

Related: https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl/pull/235

One thing that we should consider before implementing this is whether or not we can keep up the quality of error messages.