I was commenting on the Gruber comment, not making a real-world
observation. I have used a few different implementations and the results
are consistent except for the edge cases. However, there ARE edge cases
where results are not consistent with common expectations (typically
from users who do understand the rules), and are indeed discussed in
great detail on this list. Most users here would prefer that the
expectations took precedence. Gruber's comment indicates otherwise.
The "compalints about Mr Gruber" seem to me to be more along the lines
of users wanting extra features (like tables, footnotes, etc) or wanting
edge cases made more consistent, with Mr Gruber being quite content with
the status quo and not even bothering to comment on the feature requests
or edge cases. Since he is deemed to be the BDFL of markdown nothing
therefore changes. Implementers then have the conuntrum of either
literally following what Gruber's markdown does or following what common
expecations want. Added features become individual enhancements with no
central authority. In essence, each implementation becomes a fork of
markdown. Forks tend to diverge, making interoperability problematic.
Personally, I am quite content with the current feature set of markdown,
which probably explains why I have a very low posting rate here. I don't
use tables or footnotes very often so I don't miss them but I can
understand the need for them.
On 16/05/11 11:16 PM, David Parsons wrote:
On May 16, 2011, at 7:42 PM, Seumas Mac Uilleachan wrote:
On 16/05/11 10:18 PM, Dr. Drang wrote:
A bit of Kremlinology: [...]
lol
A) The rules produce inconsistent results.
In rare edge conditions, yes. But the operative word here is
*rare*; if they happened all the time, people would be screaming
much more loudly that they are now (and, really, it seems that a
lot of the complaints about Mr. Gruber not continually futzing with
the language is coming from the obnoxious open source belief that
if people aren't continually tweaking the code it's dead.)
As an implementer, I'm *very* happy that the language has become
stable; this means I get to spend my coding time fixing bugs instead
of chasing the latest "I got bored, so I rewrote everything" release.
(something I can't say for some of the extensions I try to support,
which have silently morphed since I copied them.)
-david parsons
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