On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 19:27:12 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> src/jdk.compiler/share/classes/com/sun/tools/javac/parser/DocCommentParser.java >> line 422: >> >>> 420: defaultContentCharacter(); >>> 421: } >>> 422: } >> >> Is it to pass `` through to Markdown, to allow it to deal with Markdown >> escapes? > > It is more about supporting the sequence `` ` `` so that the backtick is > treated as a literal character and not the beginning of a code span. This > is the "backstop" preferred way to ensure that a single backtick is treated > literally, without relying on detected that it is unbalanced when the end of > the current block is reached. The alternative workaround would be a single > backtick enclosed in multiple backticks, such as this ``` `` ` `` ```. (I > leave you to figure out what I actually typed there!!!) You might also need to use `` ` `` when there are two literal backticks in a sentence. After the first backtick (`), another backtick (`) can be used to delimit a code span. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16388#discussion_r1491528153
