Modular/Packaging Suggestion

[Mark Lawrence]

I feel as though I have just wandered into a Heinlein time travel  
story. Just yesterday, I (the original Mark Lawrence) stripped the  
blosxom, Movable Type, and command line stuff from Markdown.pl to  
create a Markdown.pm file for `use`ing in a larger HTML filter  
script. Today, I (still the original Mark Lawrence) looked at my  
email and found this message from another Mark Lawrence (with a  
suspicious null.net address--an indication of a visitor [nomad] from  
another dimension?) who has done a similar, albeit more thorough, job  
of modularizing Markdown. The vertigo is so strong I can't bring  
myself to follow his links.

--
(the original) Mark Lawrence

On Aug 30, 2005, at 6:27 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:


>

> First up, great work on Markdown. It seems clear and easy format to  

> use.

> So much so in fact that I wanted to integrate it into my (home- 

> built) blog

> which also happens to be written in Perl.

>

> However, as a Perl hacker I would much rather have a module  

> interface to

> such text filtering rather than Markdown's current script-based  

> interface.

>

> So I went ahead and 'modularised' Markdown into Text::Markdown and a

> 'markdown' script that uses Text::Markdown to do the work, and  

> adjusted

> the POD documentation for each accordingly.

>