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Juerd
Date:
June 6, 2006 16:00
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Re: OT: "my wiki syntax is better than yours" (was: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6)
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Matt Todd skribis 2006-06-06 16:46 (-0400):
> There are alternatives to using tables for side-by-side using
> paragraphs. Simply having one cell for each line, for instance, allows
> for highlighting green the added lines and red the removed ones, etc.

Visually pleasing, but technically incorrect, and practically annoying:
selecting a block of code is no longer possible, let alone testing and
running it automatically.

> Also realize that it is not necessarily the duty of Textile (et al) to
> handle that aspect beyond text formatting. A diff or history-revision
> view goes beyond the context of the tool.

Not my point. A Perl 6 wiki needs to explain how Perl 6 differs from
Perl 5. Not with diff(1) output, obviously.

> So, in that regard, I don't believe that this is an issue.

Pity.


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