On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 11:48:24 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 at 11:33:45 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
And then you have to worry about something like int* screwing
with things, because the compiler decides that you wanted
italics. Honestly, I don't think that something like $(I foo)
is very onerous - it's not all that different from <i>foo</i>
or [i]foo[/i] (which plenty of folks are familiar with), but
it's shorter and less visually noisy - and it doesn't risk
having stuff that isn't supposed to be markdown being treated
as markdown.
[...]
Try this one (paste it into http://spec.commonmark.org/dingus/):
# CommonMark
```
int* ptr;
```
`int*` is a pointer to an integer.
int* is a pointer to an integer.
Coming up with a counter example is easy. Try this:
To dereference a pointer variable, write *i. To define a
pointer variable, write int* i.
Inserting backticks obviously solves this and personally I would
be fine with that requirement, but Markdown is not completely
harmless. The above line comes out totally as not intended.
