> > On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 10:15 PM, Stephane Ducasse > <stepharo.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Jan Kurs made an extensive petitparser for CommonMark with tests and > >> everything... it is not complete but it had support for most common > stuff. > >> So the best approach would be two write a visitor on top of this parser > to > >> output Pillar document model. > > > > Good to know. I will see if we can ask students to do something we > > have a lecture that starts first week or we could ask asbath. > > (why a visitor? you mean that he already has production rules that > > outputs a tree?). >
There was a visitor that produced HTML from the markdown, so the same could be done to produce pillar. > > > > > >> Stef, would it make sense to name them differently? > >> E.g. "Pillar" is the syntax and "Pier" the model (or some other name). > >> Maybe it could reduce the confusion, and improve the dialog surrounding > it. > >> Because people use same word when then mean different things. > > > > I do not have the energy for that. > > Pharo it is the system or the syntax? > I tend to call "Pharo" the system, and "Smalltalk language" the syntax.
