On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 03:32:39PM +0000, Thomas Dalton wrote:
We don't really need underline. And I don't agree: people use * and / all the time in normal text, whereas ** and // are almost unheard of. Yes, if people are going to quote C comments, they'll have to escape it, but that's basically the case now anyway with an empty string in Pascal etc. Let's not be biased towards quoting source code. And let's minimise the amount of escaping needed.
// appears in every single URL. It might be possible to have the parser recognise urls and automatically escape the token, but it's a definite complication.
No it's not. Or at least, not much of one. If it immediately follows \W[a-z]+: then you assume it's part of a URL. That will make it difficult to impossible to italicize the domain name in a URL, but you know? I can live with that. :-)
Cheers, -- jra