I went and looked at the report and am sad to see that people always use that
remaining pure to Markdown.pl argument. :(
I'd like to find a single person who *depends* on peculiarities like that and
not just anticipates and intentionally works around them when authoring their
documents.
This is the exact bug I joined this mailing list to report (having also
used Python-Markdown), and what fueled my desire to see Markdown 2.0.
I do still very much wish we could agree that this really is a bug, as far as
being a completely unexpected result.
Very sad that nothing seems to