Sorry for the delay in responding, the weekend happened - and it
mostly involved moving my brother in law house rather than reading
email...
On 29 Feb 2008, at 16:04, david parsons wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tomas Doran <[email protected]> wrote:
Text::Markdown *does not* extend the original Markdown syntax *in any
way*.
Yes. you said "and Text::MultiMarkdown" which provoked
my comments. I'm sorry -- I misunderstood you.
No worries :)
They're actually using the same codebase, and currently
Text::Markdown is a reasonably nasty hack to switch all the
MultiMarkdown additions off...
In the longer term, I'm trying to find a more parser-like way of
doing things, so that each module becomes just a composition of a
number of 'features'. You can then trivially extend (or even build
your own variant of a makrdown-like language) by compositing the
features differently to one of the default dialects..
But a complete parser re-write is a long way off (as I don't have
that much time), but whilst I'm slowly getting there - it'd be great
to have a spec / test suite evolve from the community that was solid
enough that I had confidence that the rebuilt parser was going to "do
the right thing" in the same way as both the original and other
implementations..
What I'd love, too, is to see is to have the spec nailed down and
blessed by John Gruber, at the very least so people don't have to
trawl through markdown.discuss and 30 or so individual
implementations to figure what the state of the art is. It's
somewhat less ego-ridden than replacing the reference spec.
Spec and test suite, but yes, totally.
As I've already stated, I'll be jumping on any bandwagons that emerge
from this discussion, as will a number of the other people on the
list who are maintaining markdown implementations, so I'm extremely
pleased, as 'the community' seems to actually be moving forward in a
really positive way. :)
Cheers
Tom
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