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.
