Why is stdio ... stdio?

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Sunday, 11 November 2018 at 03:57:22 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> It may be that a feature was needed to do better character 
> escaping

Yeah, I would have preferred to just escape all of it (and axe 
the biggest mis"feature" ddoc has imo - embedded HTML), but it 
got rejected :(

> On the whole, the worst features of ddoc are the ones that act 
> least like macros. They're the ones that are most "magical" and 
> the ones that generally have to be fought and worked around.

I have no problem with the

---
code
---

or with the

params:
  a = whatever

bit... though the stupid _highlight crap is awful, and

random:

being a header drives me a bit nuts too. So I guess I see where 
you're coming from.



Of course, I no longer care about ddoc, since I just did a custom 
doc gen.


> but I don't want it doing anything that encourages people to 
> start putting markdown in their messages, because I don't use 
> the web interface, I don't want to have to see markdown in the 
> middle of plain text messages any more than I want to see html.

Frankly, people already do this stuff and I don't see that 
changing.


When I wrote my competitor for the forum back in the day, I had 
it trying to auto-detect code by looking for { or ; at the end of 
a line, or // at the beginning. I thought it worked reasonably 
well, but in the end i didn't really like it because IMO 
highlighting code on a forum is worthless anyway.

But so many people write the --- or ``` or <code> thing that it 
prolly wouldn't hurt to read it too.