On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:02:06AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:44:09AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
Clearly, if this is done, it needs to be considered whether surrounding spaces should be eaten by the parser.
Agreed. I vote "no".
Oh; you're voting "no, the parser should *not* automagically replace '--' and/or ' -- ' with —", then?
Err, no, I'm voting "No, the parser should not eat surrounding spaces." I just don't like the look of emdashes without any spacing at all.
. . . though it looks like the parser automagically replacing it does present some technical issues all its own, and perhaps I should also say that I vote "no" for surrounding spaces being eaten by other text-replacement techniques that might be used to turn -- into an emdash (such as the suggested Javascript method, which wouldn't work for everyone, but would at least circumvent the technical issues with having the parser do it).