William Allen Simpson wrote:
Stephen Bain wrote:
Maybe this is the devs hinting that they don't want to turn wikisyntax into a fully fledged programming language.
Actually, wikisyntax is a language by definition. Looks LALR(1). I've always assumed there was solid computer science going on here, rather than mere ad hoc jiggery pokery.
I assure you it's entirely ad hoc jiggery pokery. :)
Hopefully we'll get it sorted out and formally defined "soon". (It would be a lot easier to get reliable wysiwyg editing going with reliable transformations.)
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)