On 9/13/06, Tels <nospam-abuse(a)bloodgate.com> wrote:
It violates the KISS principle. That means humans have
now to match/balance
* on a line to find out whether a leading * will make a list, or something
bold etc. Ugh.
They would have to balance *double* asterisks only. The assumption is
that these will virtually never occur except when intended to be
markup. Since bolding markup is normally used in matched pairs,
there's not really any problem except if someone habitually fails to
close their bold markup, and unclosed bold markup probably shouldn't
render as bold altogether (to force people to match asterisks *all*
the time so they don't get confused when it doesn't work at the
beginning of a line).