On 1/1/15 1:39 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/1/2015 1:19 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
On 12/31/14 1:12 PM, Dicebot wrote:
I don't feel like any small change in DDOC will make me like/use it.
I'm envisioning quite an interesting possibility in which certain
constructs are
automatically converted to macros:
`hello world` --> $(BACKQUOTED hello world)
"hello world" --> $(QUOTED hello world)
'hello world' --> $(SQUOTED hello world)
_hello world_ --> $(UNDERLINED hello world)
*hello world* --> $(STARRED hello world)
... and such. Then generating nice formatting for each of these
constructs is
achieved by simply defining these macros appropriately.
" and ` naturally come in pairs, but *, _ and ' do not.
Stars and underlines are popular due to markdown. There'd be
limitations, e.g. pairs occurring across a ddoc parent won't be
considered for expansion etc. Also the defaults can be written to be
idempotent. (Below I am removing the single quote because indeed it's
not fitting):
BACKQUOTED=`$0`
QUOTED="$0"
UNDERLINED=_$0_
STARRED=*$0*
So essentially we get to start 100% backward compatible and figure out
under what circumstances the macros expand. I think we can get this working.
Andrei
