31 Jul
2013
31 Jul
'13
7:14 p.m.
On 31/07/2013, at 8:16 PM, Simon Hengel wrote:
* There is no such thing as a parse error in Markdown, and I think we should try to make this true for Haddock markup, too
It is very far from clear that this is a virtue in Markdown. In trying to learn Markdown, I found it an excessively tiresome defect. Whenever I was trying to learn how to produce some combination of effects, instead of Markdown telling me "at THIS point you had something I wasn't expecting", it would just produce incorrect output, defined as "anything other than what I intended". It also meant that two different Markdown processors would accept the same text silently but do different things with it. This is one of the reasons I won't use Markdown.