markdown PEG (parsing expression grammar)

[John MacFarlane]

But see http://piumarta.com/software/peg/, a lex/yacc replacement that
uses PEG.  No doubt there are others as well.

+++ John MacFarlane [Apr 06 08 14:04 ]:

> 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?

> >

> > --

> > Dr. Drang

> > www.leancrew.com/all-this

> >

> > 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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