Joel de Guzman wrote:
> Rene Rivera wrote:
>> Joel de Guzman wrote:
>>> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>>> Joel de Guzman wrote:
>>>>> Will it help if we allow:
>>>>>
>>>>> [section One]
>>>>> [ section Sub One]
>>>>>
>>>>> ...some stuff here...
>>>>>
>>>>> [ endsect Sub One]
>>>>> [endsect One]
>>> We can make it work the way you want it if we agree that
>>> code blocks *cannot* have '[' as its first character. I think
>>> there's no problem with that in C++, nor python. I'm not sure
>>> about other languages.
>> Didn't someone already suggest that '[' would be reserved under all
>> contexts, and hence the only way to get it in code blocks would be
>> escaping it?
>
> Oh no! Code blocks should be an exception as it uses a different
> grammar (that of the host language). If not, then we can't write
> simple code like:
>
> int foo(std::vector<int>& v)
> {
> vec[1] = vec[6];
> }
>
> I strongly object to that. Would you rather prefer:
>
> int foo(std::vector<int>& v)
> {
> vec\[1\] = vec\[6\];
> }
>
> ?
Good point :-) Would one then be able to get a literal '[' as the first
char by escaping it?
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