[pmwiki-users] Different Markup definitions for a section?

Dominique Faure dominique.faure at gmail.com
Tue Apr 25 04:44:56 CDT 2006


On 4/25/06, Joachim Durchholz <jo at durchholz.org> wrote:
> Dominique Faure schrieb:
> > In fact, processing text with markup is to be considered as a
> > programming language as PHP could be (even if it is simpler).
>
> No, it's not Turing-complete until you have both "if" statements
> (present) and some form of loop (not currently present).
>
> There are still important similarities, of course.

[#weird]
Can't we consider pagelist templates as a form of loop?
[#weirdend]

> The easiest way to do that would be using a "Keep pool" for that. I
> think it can even be done as a recipe, with no changes in the PmWiki
> core, if done that way.

That's the sort of thing I was also thinking of.

> I had started looking into the issue months ago, but got sidetracked by
> other things, and also PM didn't seem overly enthusiastic about the
> whole thing, so I dropped the project.
> If you want to do something concrete in this area, I won't find the time
> to do any actual programming, but I can put up warning signs around the
> pits and point out the vistas.

I neither have myself too much (spare?) time for this...

> Ask and ye will be answered :-)

Thanks,
Dom




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