On Wednesday, 31 December 2014 at 19:11:27 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 12/31/2014 7:20 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
On Monday, 29 December 2014 at 22:39:02 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
* reddit
* github
These both use Markdown. The syntax is the same, except for
minor things, such
as the handling of newlines.
Yes, the same only different.
Just like DDoc macros and Makefile macros. They're the same, but
different.
Also, the differences between Markdown implementations are
trivial, and do not effect the readability of the source, which
is the entire point of Markdown - making the "plain-text"
readable, rather than polluting it with HTML (or DDoc) tag noise.
* wiki
* hackernews
Hacker News and both the new D Wiki, and the old, do not use
Markdown.
It's just another variation of it - which is my point.
And your point is completely wrong. DDoc and Makefiles both use
$(MACROS), does that mean that DDoc is a variation of Make?
Yes, *lots* of things use common elements. Because that makes
things more easily understood when *reading*, which is the single
most important thing for documentation. The macros are fine for
when they are needed, but you shouldn't have to use gotos and
jumps when all you want is a gorram foreach loop. Nor should you
have to write (or read!) $(UL $(LI A) $(LI B) $(LI C)) to get a
list.
I know that Markdown formatting is context sensitive.
And what happens if you want to have a * at the beginning of
the line of
output?
And a | in a table entry? And so on for each of the context
sensitive things?
A backslash. Y'know, the unambiguous,
familiar-to-all-programmers, really-hard-to-mistype thing that
almost everything but HTML and DDoc use for escaping?
