Le 2008-05-13 à 2:20, John MacFarlane a écrit :

PS. Here's all you have to learn in order to write or read a PEG grammar.

A B C                 A followed by B followed by C
A | B                 A or B (ordered choice)
A+                    one or more As
A*                    zero or more As
A?                    optional A
!A                    not followed by A
&A                    followed by A (but does not consume A)
(A B)                 grouping
.                     matches any character
'x'                   matches the character 'x'
"string"              matches the string "string"
[a-z]                 matches a character from 'a' to 'z'

It certainly true that many parts could be converted to this and be less verbose, and I find this idea appealing. I doubt the whole Markdown Extra ruleset can be expressed in this format though. Can a PEG grammar have parametrized rules?

I've just added nested block element support in the spec. This is done by having the block element generator (formerly the block element pass) have a stack of rules to match when starting each line. This idea coming straight from Allan Odgaard's explanation of his lost Markdown parser. <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2008-March/001107.html >


Michel Fortin
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