Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-06-06 Thread Udo Güngerich
Thomas Wittek wrote: >> Noone other than Mediawiki uses the Mediawiki syntax. I posit >> that the reason is that that syntax blows chunks. > > I have to agree. 'bold and italic' is definitely not what I > understand as an intuitive syntax. Hi everyone, I'd like to mention that the med

Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-06-06 Thread Udo Güngerich
Thomas Wittek wrote: > > Good ideas. But maybe we should start a bit smaller ;) > It might be a good idea to create a list of features separated in > several increments (releases) to get a running system early. Absolutely. > I could imagine increments like "Parsing/Converting", "Storage > backe

Re: OT: wiki engine architecture (was: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6)

2006-06-08 Thread Udo Güngerich
Michael Mathews wrote: > This is the smartest suggestion I've yet seen on the subject, but, not > being all *that* familiar with Perl6 Grammars (aren't they something > like contextually-smart regexes?), can anyone give an example of Perl > 6 code that uses grammars and can express some wiki-forma

Re: S04 - forbidden coding-style

2006-07-30 Thread Udo Güngerich
o; seems to be the most natural change in syntax, if $WeReallyWantToAvoidTheBackslash ;) I'm afraid though, it is also the most nasty one for parser-developers as you cannot tell the difference between this and an expression very early... ??? Regards and many thanks for making Perl6!!! -- Ud