On 22/11/2007, Jay R. Ashworth jra@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.