Why is stdio ... stdio?

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 23:29:12 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> The fact that they got added to ddoc just further degrades it 
> as a proper, macro-based markup language.

The backticks were added to ddoc because they enabled something 
that was *virtually impossible* in ddoc before - proper character 
escaping. It actually originally had nothing to do with syntax 
sugar nor even with presentation - just the constant repetition 
of that myth has made it into a bit of reality.

On the forum though, characters are already escaped properly, so 
there's no need here. Syntax highlighting for larger blocks is 
something I'm meh on - I don't really care either way if we 
wanted to do it.