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On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:17, Brian Ingerson wrote:
> Kwid does this by formally changing
>
> X<...>
>
> into
>
> {X...X}
Ok, where is THAT proposal?! I'm reading the doc that's in
doc/perlkwid.kwid in the pugs source tree. Hmmm... odd, I just did an
update and it's GONE now... was I looking at some phantom doc that had
an old spec for Kwid?!
> Where `X` is any Pod code like `B`, `I` or `C`. Since there are only 3
> codes in common use (ignore `L` for a second), Kwid thus uses {*bold*}
> {/italic/} and {`code`}.
Well, I'm personally not fond of the bare-bracketting with {}, but as
long as it's not a stand-alone /italic/ like it was in the original doc,
that sounds fine. Why {/foo/} is more readable than I[foo], I'm not
sure... but I'll try to take your word for it.
> For L<...>, I decided to use the very common wiki idiom of [...] for a
> link. Everything in the `...` is the same as Pod.
There, I think you're making a small mistake, but not a huge one. I'd
separate out magical wiki-like [foo] from pedantic, pod-like L[foo] so
that you can get either one. Wiki's [foo] is like a URN, where POD's
L[foo] is more in tune with a relative URL.
> > While I appreciate several features of Kwid, I feel that it should not
> > replace POD without first adopting a POD-like simplicity.
> >
> > Some people have argued that Kwid is only a syntactic change to
> > Pod. I would argue that they are correct.
> >
> > They are demonstrably wrong. You cannot Parse Kwid correctly by changing
> > the syntax of a POD parser.
> The behaviour of this is completely consistent. You may need to reread the
> perlkwid document for it has recently changed.
Apparently.
> ie
>
> * foo
> bar
> * baz
> boom
>
> matches
>
> * foo bar
> * baz boom
>
> matches
>
> .list
> * foo bar
> * baz boom
> .list.
Hrm...
How, then do you differentiate:
* Bullet list.
1. Numbered list.
Other
Term/definition lists
? In POD, that would be:
=item *
Bullet list
=item 1
Numbered list.
=item Other
Term/definition lists
> I would encourage those interested in further fleshing out Kwid to join
> irc://irc.freenode.net/#kwid where all of this is actively being
> discussed.
Sorry, no access to IRC at work. If the specification of core pieces of
P6 are being done off-list, why is there a list?
--
Aaron Sherman <ajs@ajs.com>
Senior Systems Engineer and Toolsmith
"It's the sound of a satellite saying, 'get me down!'" -Shriekback
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