On 29 Feb 2008, at 19:29, Yuri Takhteyev wrote:
Text::Markdown *does not* extend the original Markdown syntax *in
any
way*.
Well, I don't know if agree with this reading.
Good! My original comments were somewhat deliberately inflamatory to
try and provoke discussion - which seems to have been a success! :)
Text:Markdown just imports Text:MultiMarkdown and disables some
features. While it might behave like the original markdown, it goes a
long way in terms of blurring the boundary between Markdown and
MultiMarkdown. And using it as a reference implementation would mean
sending maintainers of other implementations hunting through
MultiMarkdown code trying to figure out what features are "standard"
and what features are "extra".
As noted in my original mail, I didn't in any way suggest that I
considered my code's time had come.
As yes - currently that way that this is implemented leaves *a lot*
to be desired.
Re-reading my original email - I didn't term this strongly enough:
On 28 Feb 2008, at 17:34, Tomas Doran wrote:
I'd like to get to a point where I'm a little more happy with the
code, and then I'll start promoting this as a 'true' fork, or, if
I can get John to agree and approve - I'd like to become the
'official' maintained version which is linked from daringfireball.
When I said 'a little more happy with the code', I meant 'un-fuck the
whole mess internally' ;_)
However, from an *external* perspective, I believe that my code is
very useable, and has solved more nasty / edge cases than either
Markdown.pl or MultiMarkdown.pl.
I wasn't, however - prepared to spend my effort maintaining 2
different implementations by copy-pasting code between them, that
just sucks :)
Cheers
Tom
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