On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 16:31:44 +0300, יגאל חיטרון <khit...@post.bgu.ac.il> wrote, > Hi. Any computer language that has parentheses isn't context free. So > if > you are not in Assembly, it's enough. > About context-free - it's tricky question. I wouldn't call it context > free > because of some macro expansions, for example, the pipe ([[abc > (def)|]] -> > [[abc (def)|abc]]). The problem I don't know if it will really > disturb you, > because highlighting should not care about this. > The first problem of context-free, templates, should not bother you > either, > because you do not have template expansion on the page is > highlighted, only > in "runtime". Even "subst" mechanism does not work before saving. > I tried now to find some wikitext syntax constructs that created a > "really" > context sensitive problems, as text power (find ww for some w), but > had not > found anything. > Any other oppinions? > Thanks for the reply. So from what I could get does it mean that as far as syntax-highlighting is concerned 'wikitext' could be considered to be something close to a context-free language. As a result of, syntax highlighting could be done with a program that works like a PDA. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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