On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 10:15 PM, Stephane Ducasse
<stepharo.self@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jan Kurs made an extensive petitparser for CommonMark with tests and
>> everything... it is not complete but it had support for most common stuff.
>> So the best approach would be two write a visitor on top of this parser to
>> output Pillar document model.
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> Good to know. I will see if we can ask students to do something we
> have a lecture that starts first week or we could ask asbath.
> (why a visitor? you mean that he already has production rules that
> outputs a tree?).

There was a visitor that produced HTML from the markdown, so the same could be done to produce pillar.
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>> Stef, would it make sense to name them differently?
>> E.g. "Pillar" is the syntax and "Pier" the model (or some other name).
>> Maybe it could reduce the confusion, and improve the dialog surrounding it.
>> Because people use same word when then mean different things.
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> I do not have the energy for that.
> Pharo it is the system or the syntax?

I tend to call "Pharo" the system, and "Smalltalk language" the syntax.
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