Formal Grammar?

[Michel Fortin]

Le 9 juil. 2006 à 3:01, A. Pagaltzis a écrit :


> * Eric Astor <eastor1 at swarthmore.edu> [2006-07-09 02:00]:

>> One question, though – does anyone know of a formal grammar for

>> the Markdown syntax?

>

> If anyone’s written one, it’s not public knowledge.

>

>> (probably some BNF variant, in particular bison/flex grammar).

>

> If you need to write it in C, be sure not to miss D. Richard

> Hipp’s [lemon][1] parser generator.

>

> [1]: http://www.hwaci.com/sw/lemon/


Not sure if anyone seen that, but [Eric Anderton's compile-time  
regular expression parser][2] made of D templates looks very  
promising, but is possibly lacking some things needed for a strait  
port of Markdown. Maybe there are ways to compensate for that.

  [2]: http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddl/browser/trunk/meta/regexp2.d


>

>> Would anyone be interested in contributing to this effort?

>

> I can’t make any promises, but I’ve always wanted an actual

> parser rather than all the search&replace-train implementations

> that we currently have, so by the looks of it I was going to have

> to write one eventually anyway.

>

> Regards,

> -- 

> Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

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