markdown PEG (parsing expression grammar)

Dr. Drang drdrang at gmail.com
Sun Apr 6 14:27:10 EDT 2008


Forgive my ignorance, but can this sort of grammar be converted to the
form used by lex and yacc?

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Dr. Drang
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On Apr 6, 2008, at 12:50 PM, John MacFarlane <jgm at berkeley.edu> wrote:


> There's been a lot of discussion on this list about creating a formal

> grammar for markdown. I had a go at writing a [parsing expression

> grammar] for markdown. I used Haskell and John Meacham's Frisby PEG

> parsing library, but it should not be too hard to port the grammar

> to PEG libraries in other languages.



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