On Apr 27, 2006, at 2:46 PM, Pedro de Medeiros wrote:
On 4/27/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
URLs are definitely a better example, but as Mr Cable notes, there are *lots* of programming wikis;
Any wiki that display code should properly quote it. Have a look at any source code example in wikipedia. It is a good practice.
overloading /RE/ is about as bad as overloading /U/R/L.
Not really. /U/R/L has a meaning in wiki markup, /RE/ doesn't. It is just plain text. So you can't say they compare that much.
Besides, "overloading /RE/" is not correct, because /RE/ is not processed by wiki markup (as stated, /RE/ is just plain text). On the other hand, "Overloading /U/R/L" is more correct.
In any case, as he said, this won't be changing any time soon, so lets leave it at this, shall we? There are arguments both for and against this type of /italic/ *bold* and _underlined_ syntax, we've heard them all now, and they won't affect anything at all until a decision is made to totally re-define the syntax anyway; so lets let this go and move on.