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I feel like the focus on language appearance is taking too much precedence over covering other aspects like parser composition. For example mentioning the 'inde
by rifty 2y ago
I feel like the focus on language appearance is taking too much precedence over covering other aspects like parser composition. For example mentioning the 'indention trick' feels like a deviation and distraction from the actual point you're trying to convey. The idea here isn't actually dependent on the exact presentation style of the format...
To comment on the appearance though since it seems a focus none the less... I appreciate the ideal of syntax sparseness, but in this case I feel like it loses visual salience in plaintext after looking at some of the .scroll files. It's difficult to recognize the shape and proportion of what the content will be when rendered. The applied meta content lacks visual differentiation in plaintext from the content itself. I don't think total spareness should be the sole goal here; Markdown for example isn't strong in plaintext just because it is syntactically sparse, but because it is sparse in tandem with not supporting applying extensible meta content to content - but this does.