On 22/11/2007, Jay R. Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com> wrote:
More my point was that it seems more useful in the
grand scale to make
sure one's thinking about a language spec that's trimmable for smaller
uses, than implementing an actual parser that can be dropped into other
things... those other things are almost certainly not in PHP anyway.
(If their implementers have any sense :-)
A spec will be recompilable to anything useful, including a fast C
preprocessor for those with access to gcc (i.e., probably not in the
default MediaWiki download).
- d.