Re: [Readable-discuss] Damage done.

2014-05-31 Thread Alan Manuel Gloria
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:45 AM, John Cowan co...@mercury.ccil.org wrote: Jörg F. Wittenberger scripsit: With cdata we'd need to watch that no ]] is in sweet lisp. Sweet-expressions don't use square brackets for anything. Not quite. Neoteric defines [ x ] to mean exactly the same thing in

Re: [Readable-discuss] Damage done.

2014-05-10 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
Sure CDATA could solve the problem. So could encoding as lt; . With cdata we'd need to watch that no ]] is in sweet lisp. Cdata does not work for attribute values. Many web devs need to be told what cdata actually is. Most of this embedded code is rather short. The wrapping would - too -

Re: [Readable-discuss] Damage done.

2014-05-10 Thread John Cowan
Jörg F. Wittenberger scripsit: With cdata we'd need to watch that no ]] is in sweet lisp. Sweet-expressions don't use square brackets for anything. Cdata does not work for attribute values. Sweet-expressions can't go in attribute values, because XML processors convert all newlines to spaces

[Readable-discuss] Damage done.

2014-05-09 Thread Jörg F. Wittenberger
Hi all, continuing on alias tokens for collecting lists. Two aspects have made my feelings stronger that I'd actually like {* and *}: A) As noted before, users usually know how to key them in. B) My emacs will make it easy to skip over the block in most editing modes. To get a feeling what

Re: [Readable-discuss] Damage done.

2014-05-09 Thread David A. Wheeler
On Fri, 09 May 2014 13:58:50 +0200, Jörg F. Wittenberger continuing on alias tokens for collecting lists. Two aspects have made my feelings stronger that I'd actually like {* and *}: A) As noted before, users usually know how to key them in. B) My emacs will make it easy to skip over the

Re: [Readable-discuss] Damage done.

2014-05-09 Thread David A. Wheeler
On Fri, 9 May 2014 16:00:58 -0400, John Cowan co...@mercury.ccil.org wrote: In HTML, * and * Just Work, without a problem, at least if they are surrounded by whitespace. Agreed. If I read the HTML5 spec on whatwg correctly, * MUST be passed through as text in HTML5: