On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Eduardo Cavazos <[email protected]> wrote: > A more complex wiki-style markup language would probably employ PEGs. Don't > get me wrong, I love pegs, but they're definately a heavy-weight depenency.
PEGs are already loaded in the base image because io.launcher uses them. > Since easy-help is implemented as parsing words which expand into the standard > Factor help markup, it's no problem at all two mix the two styles in the same > file, for example when easy-help doesn't easily allow for some complex > expression. If we adopt easy-help, I'd like it to completely replace the s-exp syntax, even if it expands into it under the hood and older docs continue to use that syntax; otherwise we end up with a situation where there are two syntaxes for new developers to learn. > It would be nice to be able to use something like 'easy-help' when documenting > core words. I think a PEG dependency would prevent inclusion of such a markup > system at the core level. Something along the lines of easy-help with it's > much more conservative implementation might stand a better chance. The help system is in basis and it already uses some non-core vocabularies, such as the prettyprinter and fry. Slava ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
