On 10 August 2010 11:09, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 August 2010 17:04, Mark Clements (HappyDog) gmane@kennel17.co.uk wrote:
This kind of unexpected edge-case is arguably something that should be fixed in any formal markup specification.
How prevalent is it in actual wikitext? Is it an edge case people actually use much, or are all instances of it basically errors? That'll be the question.
Its only potential use is in making the wikitext more easily readable, which doesn't seem important enough to warrant just a weird edge-case. Any formal spec is going to end up breaking things, that can't really be helped (unless we just write down a spec for the current behaviour, bugs and all, which sounds like a lost opportunity to me).