Adding Markdown to Ddoc

user1234 user1234 at 12.nl
Mon Dec 11 17:32:46 UTC 2017


On Monday, 11 December 2017 at 15:45:07 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> On Monday, 11 December 2017 at 14:22:37 UTC, Jakob Bornecrantz 
> wrote:
>>
>> And to add more, CommonMark on the other hand has a full spec 
>> written and several test that covers the difficult to get 
>> right parts of Markdown/CommonMark. I'm sure I don't need to 
>> tell you the virtues of a good test suit.
>>
>
> The CommonMark approach is to just take the union of all 
> possible features and call it a day.
> Standards without opinions don't deserve to be implemented by 
> anyone.

It's crazy to see that the most basic HTML features still cause 
issues in Markdown. CommonMark can be seen as a pragmatic 
approach but may suffer from the "Babel tower" problem: try to 
assemble all the languages tend to make everybody disagree, 
leading exactly to the opposite of the initial goal, that is 
unification (it's probably not exactly that but i'm not a 
theologist after all, 😂).


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