From: Jamis Buck <jamis@37signals.com>
Date: 2005-03-27T05:35:52+09:00
Subject: Re: convert YAML to HTML?

On Mar 26, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Phlip wrote:

> Jamis Buck wrote:
>
>> Yes, it is not a complete YAML parser. A patch would be more than
>> welcome, though.
>
> Puh-lease. Patches are so Last Millenium.
>
> We shall do this via the most obnoxious implementation technique yet
> discovered: Pair Programming Via USENET.
>
> Here:
>
[snip]

Thanks for the start on this, Philip. After taking what you did here 
and working a bit more on it, I'm beginning to think what really needs 
to happen is to rework the YAML lexer so that it uses a simple state 
machine. That would give much more granular output. Also, where I've 
been returning :normal (for "foo" in "bar: foo", for example), it 
should probably be :string.

We could continue with the existing lexer, but I fear it will rapidly 
become a case of plugging leaks and adding patch after patch...

I'll try to work on this some this afternoon, so the YAML lexer will be 
a lot more robust.

- Jamis