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.
