From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:40:06 GMT
Subject: Re: WIP: asciidoc replacement
Message-ID: <06B9DBA8-596F-4576-8995-8044EA714384@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <4702F6BB.60908@vilain.net>

El 3/10/2007, a las 3:56, Sam Vilain escribió:

> However I have a suspicion that your script is doing line-based  
> parsing
> instead of recursive descent; I don't know whether that's the right
> thing for asciidoc.  It's actually fairly easy to convert a grammar to
> code blocks using tricks from MJD's _Higher Order Perl_.  Is it
> necessary for the asciidoc grammar?

I haven't looked at all of the asciidoc source for the Git  
documentation but I suspect that almost all of it is entirely  
regular, and if there is any nesting in it is is probably of a  
limited scope (ie. sections, subsections, subsubsections in the user  
manual) and so you can avoid the complexity of a full recursive  
descent parser. I'd also expect Johannes' approach to be faster (is  
it faster than the existing tool chain? I would expect so).

Cheers,
Wincent