[ANN] Babelmark

[Fletcher T. Penney]

Agreed.  Assuming that it's minimal effort to leave both in, I think  
it's better to leave as many options in babelmark as possible.  When I  
add a new feature or "fix" something in MultiMarkdown, it may break  
something else, or it may work differently in my implementation than  
in Tomas'.

By having these different flavors in one place, it will make it much  
easier to keep small unintentional "drifts" from occurring between  
"dialects".

Ideally, the only differences would occur as related to syntax  
features that are implemented in one dialect, and not in another.


Another benefit is the ability to merge similar features that are  
implemented differently.  For example, when Michel added footnote  
support to PHP Markdown Extra that was almost the same as the approach  
I had used in MultiMarkdown, it was easy for me to change the XHTML  
syntax so that they were compatible (though it appears they have  
drifted apart again...)

F-

On Mar 23, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Tomas Doran wrote:

>

> Yes, please also keep Text::MultiMarkdown. This is actually *much  

> more* different to fletcher's MultiMarkdown than Text::Markdown is  

> to Markdown.pl - as with my refactoring, MultiMarkdown is able to  

> just overload / hook into Text::Markdown (as I've created the  

> relevant hook points), as opposed to being a copy & paste of  

> original markdown with bits stuck on the side.. (No offense meant  

> here - I'm only able to do this as I'm *also* maintaining a fork of  

> Markdown).

>

> Again, I'm aiming form *zero difference* between Text::MultiMarkdown  

> and 'official' MultiMarkdown, except for bugs that I've fixed (so we  

> shouldn't *expect* difference, and if it's found,  and I don't have  

> an explicit test in my distribution to cover it - it's a bug in my  

> code and I *will fix it*).. My code does pass all of Fletcher's test  

> suite, so I'm sure it's pretty similar. ;)

>

> As previously noted, s/MultiMarkdown/Markdown/g; s/Fletcher/John/g;  

> in the paragraph above is also be true.

>

> Cheers

> Tom




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Fletcher T. Penney
fletcher at fletcherpenney.net

On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
	- Charles Babbage

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