D Language Specification

[Russel Winder]

On Tue, 2019-05-14 at 01:20 +0000, Dibyendu Majumdar via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
> On Monday, 13 May 2019 at 15:59:34 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:
> > > > The spec itself is here: 
> > > > https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/tree/master/spec
> > > 
> > > Thank you - so changes should be submitted via pull requests?
> > > 
> > yes, I think it is sufficient.
> 
> Apologies if this question has been asked before. Is there a 
> reason why the spec cannot be written in something like 
> RestructuredText or Markdown? I ask because github natively 
> supports these formats, which makes it easier / more productive.

Or better still AsciiDoc.

I know choice of source format creates quasi-religious warfare and/or
bikeshedding, but AsciiDoc (with the AsciiDoctor toolchain) is superior
on all but one metric. That metric being mindshare: Markdown seems all
pervasive, but as soon as you want to do anything that is not trivial
it fails.
 
> Thanks and Regards
> Dibyendu
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