evolving the spec (was: forking Markdown.pl?)

[John Fraser]

On Mar 3, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Andrea Censi wrote:

> I didn't know what packrat was, so I googled it. It looks interesting:

> from what I understand, it's a more user-friendly way of specifying

> languages.

> Here's a good link, if anyone else is interested:

>

> http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/packrat/


Sorry, I should have provided a link.

And since you're looking at the papers, I should mention that what I'm  
building isn't strictly a packrat parser -- specifically, it won't  
guarantee O(n) running time.  Two reasons: 1) it lets you match  
against regular expressions as well as literal strings; and 2) I'll  
probably handle nesting by modifying the results of one rule (i.e.  
stripping one level of indentation) and recursively calling a parser  
on the result.