Re: The less ambiguous math delimiters in tables

[Rudolf Adamkovič]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> FYI, my approach to solve this problem is different - I want
> (eventually) to allow some kind of alternative syntax for tables that
> will allow bypassing similar situations. For example, we can allow
> multiple || to serve as delimiters:
>
> |  this |  is |  a     |  normal       |  table  |  row |
> || here || we || allow || verbatim "|" || inside ||    ||

Your idea is not that different from what I proposed, except that it is
a less general, in that you special-case one particular problem with
tables.  Or, would the "doubling escapes" work for all markup?  Still,
that would not solve other table-related problems, such as

  | =foo= and =bar= |,

where the problem is = and not |, right?

As for "parser bugs", I find it hard to believe that we could not come
up with some unambiguous sequence of characters, even if ugly, to
instruct the parser about precedence.

Rudy
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