markdown PEG (parsing expression grammar)

[John MacFarlane]

No, not in general.

+++ Dr. Drang [Apr 06 08 13:27 ]:

> Forgive my ignorance, but can this sort of grammar be converted to the form 

> used by lex and yacc?

>

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> Dr. Drang

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> On Apr 6, 2008, at 12:50 PM, John MacFarlane <jgm at berkeley.edu> wrote:

>

>> There's been a lot of discussion on this list about creating a formal

>> grammar for markdown. I had a go at writing a [parsing expression

>> grammar] for markdown. I used Haskell and John Meacham's Frisby PEG

>> parsing library, but it should not be too hard to port the grammar

>> to PEG libraries in other languages.

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