"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" avarab@gmail.com wrote in message news:51dd1af8050512052238732cc4@mail.gmail.com...
To continue the discussion Andrew started on the ticks this is the dilema with the current syntax Is that we can't easily guarentee that ''' always starts a bold segment.
- Current syntax: '''italic''plain => '<i>italic</i>plain
- Proposed syntax: '''italic''plain => <b>italic<i>plain</i></b>
- Previous behaviour with new syntax: <nowiki>'</nowiki>''italic''plain
and:
- Current syntax: ''''foo => '<b>foo</b>
- Proposed syntax: ''''foo => ''''foo (four standalone ticks would be
undefined)
This would make parsing alot easier.
I was wondering whether we could define a [[en:Parsing expression grammar]] which could then be made into a [[en:Packrat parser]].
As far as I can tell from those articles, and the references therein, this would help a great deal.