Worst Phobos documentation evar!

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 12/31/2014 6:29 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2014-12-30 01:10, Walter Bright wrote:
>
>> It's not a hack. The macro system is designed to work that way. All
>> markup systems require some sort of escape mechanism. Including Markup.
>
> You don't need to escape all the special symbols used in Markdown, only in
> certain place. In Markdown, if you start a line with a star, '*', it will be
> interpreted as the beginning of an unordered list. But if you write a star in
> the middle of text it will just output a star, as expected.

I know that Markdown formatting is context sensitive.

And what happens if you want to have a * at the beginning of the line of output? 
And a | in a table entry? And so on for each of the context sensitive things?