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[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/1/2015 5:47 PM, Mike Parker wrote:
> On 1/2/2015 7:10 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> Besides, consider how many tasks the macros in Phobos handle that are common
> enough for most projects to need them. Shouldn't that sort of thing be built in?
> Why should we keep putting together LIST macros when a list is a very common
> documentation feature? It's nice to be able to redefine that macro for different
> types of markup output, but I would much rather see a standard list tag that
> simply outputs HTML. I can use one of several tools to convert the HTML to
> something else if I need to.

Because all those features come up with the cost, such as adding a way to work 
around them.

BTW, you can embed HTML directly. No need to use the macros.