Worst Phobos documentation evar!

ketmar via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 31 12:44:09 PST 2014


On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 11:14:50 -0800
Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> 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?

that still will be MUCH better than Ddoc.
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