On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 11:15:34PM -0400, Ivan Krsti?? wrote:
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
there's a project underway to formalize the very wikitext grammar with which you're compatible.
There are efforts to produce something formal-like for some subset of the wikitext syntax. To my knowledge, no useful formal grammar can be produced for the complete syntax.
I suspect this will be circular:
How complete a spec you can produce will depend on how much you're willing to change when you find out you can't specify it completely.
How much such a spec will be permitted to prescribe change will depend on how much change it needs to prescribe.
I don't know how useful it will be to have wikitext specified strictly, and I don't think we'll be able to tell until we see how far off we are, and what might need to be tweaked.
It wouldn't be *completely* necessary to have a flag day for all possible changes to wikitext...
Cheers, -- jr 'see also [[mode bit]]' a