Rich text as Lua sources? :)

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

An old dream of mine, is to have programming (C/C++) sources being  
able to have fonts, italics, colour, and even embedded diagrams or  
pictures.

This started in -92 using Borland C/C++ (when syntax highlight was  
coming into editors), and I am still wondering, why no-one's "ever"  
done it. Now, with Lua it wouldn't really be asking for much, to  
modify the chunk loader to accept, say, RTF format.

Now, has anyone ever tried this, and would the coloring and embedding  
possibilities actually pay back in "real life"? In a more "perfect  
world" I could see function header comments actually be "fill me in"  
spreadsheet tables that can be added at places (embedded objects).

It would be fun, but would it be useful, too?

-asko