GFM Tables vs List precedence
rlidwka opened this issue · 0 comments
rlidwka commented
See discussion in laurent22/joplin#7858, markdown-it/markdown-it#767.
There is a parsing ambiguity in the following code:
a | b
- | -
1 | 2
It can be interpreted as a table or a list. As of now, github parses it as a list:
a | b
- | -
1 | 2
But GFM spec doesn't currently mention anything about list vs table precedence. I believe it should be defined in the spec, as a few people ran into this already.
Three choices here:
- The snippet above is a table. In this case, test should be added to spec, and
cmark-gfm
should be fixed. - The snippet above is a list. In this case, test should be added to spec.
- Or this is actual undefined behavior up to implementors, so it should be clearly written in spec as such (I personally would prefer to keep those at a minimum).