On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:44 PM, David E. Wheeler <da...@kineticode.com> wrote: [snip] > > In a nutshell, I embrace the PHP Markdown Extra syntax, with one change: I > would like to see the colon replaced with a tilde (for backwards > compatibility, both should be supported). That means that a simple > definition list would look like this: > [snip] > Comments? Has this ship already sailed?
You make a convincing argument. And I must admit your proposal is very nice to look at/read/write. But if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The current implementation was set before I came along some few years ago, and I have never searched through the archives to see how it came about or why. But, people have been using it for this long without issue and there are already numerous existing documents out there that use it, so I see no reason to change it. In fact that last point (numerous existing documents) seems to be the de-facto response to any suggested changes on this list - and understandably so. No doubt that's why you suggested leaving the existing syntax in place, but then we would have two ways to define deflists. What happens when an author mixes the two? Ack! Yeah, this ship has sailed IMO. -- ---- \X/ /-\ `/ |_ /-\ |\| Waylan Limberg _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list Markdown-Discuss@six.pairlist.net http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss