What parses to '| ? Now you have two escape characters, which just makes it more confusing, if you ask me.
In the unlikely event that you want `|, the two strings are (depending on whether | is a literal or a param delimiter):
\`| => ` followed by a param delimiter \``| => `|
I don't think that's so bad :) Especially considering that it's an edge case.
I stand by my new (hypothetical) proposal.
-- Jim
On 7/5/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I was referring to what happens when multiple consecutive backslashes are followed by an escapable character, which you characterized as confusing.
It is confusing. We're programmers, we're used to dealing with these kinds of obscure syntaxes. Typical MediaWiki users are not. (And I still maintain that a character which acts as an escape character in some contexts and not others is even more confusing than a standard escape character.)
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