[Atox-user] FYI (current status)

[Magnus L. H. <ma...@he...>]

Hi!

I'm looking into some alternative implementations (I've been
discussing the use of Bison heavily on the help-bison list, for
example), and I've been playing around with some prototype versions
that automatically compile/run Flex and Bison parsers. I'm not sure
whether I'll use that -- it's fast, but not entirely clean, and I'm
not even sure if I can make it 100% correct.

I'm considering introducing a leveled approach, where the block
structure is dealt with separately from the inline tags/markup. This
might make it harder to parse text that isn't block-oriented (i.e.
where it isn't easy to separate blocks like paragraphs, headers, or
list items from each other) but I think it may make the system more
intuitive, more robust, and (hopefully) faster.

I can't guarantee that I'll figure out a way to do this that is better
than the current, but I guess I'll probably spend quite a bit more
time mulling over the issue. Also, this may mean that future versions
aren't backward-compatible -- Atox is still experimental software,
after all (with a very small user base, I think ;)

Just thought I'd mention it, though.

- M

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