David Abrahams wrote:
> This:
> 
>   [* foo [bar]
> 
> parses as
> 
> 
> and
> 
>   [* foo [bar]]
> 
> parses as 
> 
>   <bold>foo [bar</bold>]
> 
> It seems as though misspellings can easily lead to surprises:
> since bar is not a keyword or template name, the preceding open
> bracket is treated as plain text.
> 
> That worries me; I rather think [] should be matched unless escaped.
> 
> Thoughts?

I agree. That behavior also makes it difficult to do error checking.
I think now that all uses of [] should be "reserved" for quickbook
(except of course, in code blocks and phrases).

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
http://www.boost-consulting.com
http://spirit.sf.net


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