Re: Non-greedy wildcard possible? (Long)

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

Laurence Finston <address@hidden>:
>
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> Since I don't think this approach will lead to success anyway, I don't 
> see any point in going any further into objections with respect to the 
> details of possible implementations.
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> I think that "a heading is a single line of text followed only by
> whitespace and two newlines" is a reasonable specification, although
> it may have to be refined a bit.  I _don't_ think that "a heading
> might be that, but it might be something else, it's specified by the
> user" is a specification at all.  
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> I also think that "less markup" is a reasonable goal, but that
> "virtually no markup" is not.

How about writing a tool for adding markup based on a user-specified
format description? That's the goal, and I have already achieved it in
the current implementation.

I've been looking into using Bison for efficiency reasons -- it's
obvious that you don't think that's doable, and I appreciate that
input.

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