On simplifying table syntax in any future markdown extension. (Use CSV)

[Michel Fortin]

Le 5-sept.-2014 à 9:13, mofo syne <mofosyne at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Btw csv is a pretty loose standard. So the above csv should work still
> for many csv parsers.

Which just add another problem. If people come to expect CSV to work for Markdown tables, they'll copy-paste their CSV documents generated by their spreadsheet application and expect it to work, which it won't because it just supports a small subset of CSV that isn't what most application generate. Then I'll get a deluge of bug reports about this or that getting mangled and all those bugs be unfixable because CSV is a too loose standard to parse it reliably. Better stay away from CSV.

But fell free to add it to your own version of the parser if it suits you.


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