there's no payoff in confusing the users

[David Chambers]

I find discussion of techniques for building Markdown parsers very
interesting. It's slightly off topic, perhaps, but I don't think this list
is large enough to spawn a separate "Markdown implementers" list.

David


On 1 December 2011 16:53, Seumas Mac Uilleachan <seumas at idirect.ca> wrote:


>  On 12/01/2011 11:37 AM, Bowerbird at aol.com wrote:

>

> john said:

> >   Have you considered using a PEG instead of regexes?

>

> for all you home-schooled and self-taught programmers

> for whom "peg" is far too computer-sciencey for comfort,

> consider as an alternative the simple methodology i use...

>

> i split the text-file on blank lines and place it in an array.

>

> that is first-cut for my light-markup format, a.k.a., "zml"

> -- zen markup language -- but it's alright with me if you

> markdown people want to borrow it for your own purpose.

>

> i mean, seriously, it's not like i could patent it, or anything.

> (but, on second thought, perhaps i _should_ at least apply.)

>

> then i walk the array, analyzing each item to see what it is;

> the chunk might get tagged as a blockquote, or a heading,

> or a list item, or a plain old paragraph, or _whatever_ it is.

>

> then i walk the array again, using the tag for each chunk to

> generate the appropriate output for the desired format(s)...

>

> (sometimes the tag, or the output, is dependent upon the

> surrounding chunks, and that's the reason i walk it twice.)

>

> it's the methodology of a simpleton, i am the first to admit,

> but it works, and it works well, and it works sufficiently fast.

>

> best of all, for me, is that it's extremely easy to understand.

>

> even better, for everyone:  it's easy for users to understand.

>

> after all, there's no payoff in confusing the users.  is there?

>

> -bowerbird

>

> p.s.  "alright" is a word i like to use...  it's akin to "already"...

>

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>  What confuses me is what this all has to do with markdown.

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