Improving ddoc

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On Wednesday, 31 December 2014 at 19:50:49 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> In wake of the recent discussions on improving ddoc syntax 
> we're looking at doing something about it. Please discuss any 
> ideas you might have here. Thanks!
>
> One simple starter would be to allow one escape character, e.g. 
> the backtick (`), as a simple way to expand macros: instead of 
> $(MACRO arg1, arg2) one can write `MACRO arg1, arg2`.
>
>
> Andrei

My biggest issue with DDOC compared to popular stuff like 
Markdown / ReStructured Text : it doesn't look nice as a source. 
Markdown is so cute because it mimics the style of ASCII-based 
text file formatting. DDOC is naturally very verbose because of 
all $(MACRO stuff) and lack of basic primitives for most common 
needs.

I don't feel like any small change in DDOC will make me like/use 
it.