On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Peter Bex <peter....@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 04:40:44PM -0300, Stephen Eilert wrote: > > Cool! > > > > I must apologize, btw. I was written something that required a Markdown > > parser and I didn't feel like going on this huge detour to write a > Markdown > > parser in Scheme, so I just used the Discount library and that's it. > > That's perfectly fine. Writing a parser yourself is a lot of work, and > you probably had bigger fish to fry at the time. Remember, Chicken is > *practical* Scheme system. We get shit done around here! > > > And reading and emitting strings is actually a nicer interface than what > you'd > > normally write with Discount - took me a while to backtrack and redo it, > it > > was going to be something much more complex to begin with. > > > > In any case, I am not to sad to see the Discount egg die. Give it an > > horrible death. > > If this is how you feel about the egg, I think it's probably a good idea > to change its category to "deprecated", and put a note on the wiki page > pointing people to the lowdown egg. This provides some transparency > about the egg's status, and guides people's expectations. > > I don't hate it. However, since we have a pure Chicken version, I see no reason to have it around. Unless it turns out there are people besides me using it. In that case, I could give it some love. -- Stephen
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