Delimited Text Syntax and Unbalanced Delimiters

[pml-lang]

Delimited Text Syntax and Unbalanced Delimiters

[pml-lang]

The only benefit is that the parser doesn't complain if the user types more characters for the closing delimiter than for the opening delimiter.

However, this also creates the problems you mentioned (e.g. plugin developments using regexes).

Therefore it's not worth to keep that lenient parsing rule.

I will change the rule to:

The closing delimiter line must contain the same number of delimiter characters as the opening delimiter line.

[pml-lang]

I will also add chapter "Nodes With Raw Text Content" to the PML user manual, because the rules are currently only explained in the PDML docs.

[tajmone]

Excellent! I think it's the right choice, and right now it's unlikely to be a problematic change, whereas in the future it could have broken existing projects (e.g. in case of accidental extra-lengths that went by unnoticed).

I also noticed that PMLC is tolerant for whitespace following the delimiter. I've just tweaked Sublime PML to allow them, so it's not a major issue in terms of affecting editors support, but you might want to consider whether in the "big picture" is better to enforce a strict notation (no trailing spaces) or allow the parser to be tolerant.

Although this might not be a big issue in this context, the idea is to keep the PML syntax as consistent as possible — be it tolerant and forgiving, or strict and enforcing.

I understand that in PML whitespace is generally not significant, but in this specific context indentation is important all the way through (from the opening delimiter, up to the closing delimiter), so it might make sense to consider whether trailing spaces should be consistent too for the delimiters.

I will also add chapter "Nodes With Raw Text Content" to the PML user manual, because the rules are currently only explained in the PDML docs.

Yes, that's really needed. I haven't yet had a chance to check the new repository with the unified documentation, but I will in the coming days.