Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
I'm not sure if it would be a more or less drastic
change, but making
bold be four tics instead of three would also solve the problem. Then
without lookahead: 2 tics is italics; 3 ticks is an apostrophe plus
italics; 4 tics is bold; 5 tics is an apostrophe plus bold; 6 tics is
bold and italic; and 7 tics is an apostrophe plus bold and italic.
If we're going to do that, we might as well face up to the fact that
'' and ''' aren't particularly logical choices in the first place.
(I'm not going to argue that we should change it, just that if we're
going to change it we should make it more intuitive and convenient,
not less.)
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Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <brent(a)brentdax.com>
Perl and Parrot hacker