Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
I'm afraid you are mixing up emails from this thread. I got
complaints about how wrongly the PMS is written, e.g. academic paper
markup vs plain text, natural language used to specify syntax while a
grammar notation like EBNF would be better suited, when I asked
people why so few were contributing about this document.
Mmm, and how many people claiming that have suggested specific
improvements or pointed out specific complaints?
You got some right here. Feel free to address them.
So how, specifically, is PMS "wrongly written", and why hasn't anyone
who thinks so bothered to provide details?
- rewrite it as an rfc using a markup among xmlrfc, docbook, guidexml.
- use EBNF when describing a syntax.
- split it and version each functional part.
- define EAPI as an aggregate of those versions in a separate part.
lu
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