How to represent multiple files in a forum post?

[user1234]

On Wednesday, 14 February 2018 at 18:33:23 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
wrote:
> @timotheecour and I came up with a solution to a common problem:
>
> How to represent multiple files in a forum post?
>
> So we decided to take a stab at creating a standard! (queue 
> links to https://xkcd.com/927)
>
> We're calling it "har" (inspired by the name tar). Here's the 
> REPO: https://github.com/marler8997/har and here's what it 
> looks like:
>
> --- file1.d
> module file1;
>
> --- file2.d
> module file2;
>
> // some cool stuff
>
> --- main.d
> import file1, file2;
> void main() { }
>
> --- Makefile
> main: main.d file1.d file2.d
>     dmd main.d file1.d file2.d
>
> The repo contains the standard in README.md and a reference 
> implementation for extracting files from a har file (archiving 
> not implemented yet).
>
> One of the great things is when someone creates a post with 
> this format, you can simply copy paste it to "stuff.har" and 
> then extract it with `har stuff.har`.  No need to create each 
> individual file and copy/paste the contents to each one.
>
> Is this going to change the world? No...but seems like a nice 
> solution to an minor annoyance :)

how does it mix with markdown, html etc ?
They'll have to use escapes to be compliant, haven't they ?