Re: [Chicken-users] ANN: Lowdown, a pure Chicken Markdown parser

[Moritz Heidkamp]

Stephen Eilert <address@hidden> writes:
> I must apologize, btw. I was written something that required a
> Markdown parser and I didn't feel like going on this huge detour to
> write a Markdown parser in Scheme, so I just used the Discount library
> and that's it.

No need to apologize, I was using your discount egg up until a few days
ago with great success! However, I got into a situation where I needed
to fiddle a bit with the parse result which, after a bit of improper
hacking, lead me to do it the proper way. Also, this was a good excuse
for playing with parser combinators ;-)


> And reading and emitting strings is actually a nicer interface than
> what you'd normally write with Discount - took me a while to backtrack
> and redo it, it was going to be something much more complex to begin
> with.

Oh, what is Discount's regular interface?


> In any case, I am not to sad to see the Discount egg die. Give it an
> horrible death.

Well, it's still a lot fater than Lowdown so I wouldn't discard it just
now. But it's your choice, of course!

Moritz