Re: [Docutils-develop] Writing reST tools

[David G. <go...@us...>]

Aahz wrote:
> I was a bit confused about the relationship between write() and
> translate(); I think the latter might be better named "visit()".

I think of "visit()" as an abstract tree traversal operation: the mechanics.
"translate()" is what the "visit" is actually accomplishing: semantics.
Perhaps "transform()" would have been better, but it was already taken. ;-)

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