On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:27 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > if they are ambiguous about what they want, do nothing! >
While, generally, I would agree with this line of thinking, we must remember that one of the basic concepts behind Markdown is that it should never return an error for invalid markup. So, then, how do we interpret "do nothing". Some would argue that "do nothing" is what Option A is doing, while other's might argue the same for Option C. Or would you prefer option D: wrap the entire block of text in a <p> and move on? The fact is, the authors of each implementation need to make that decision. Obviously, everyone hasn't made the same decision. Yet, theoretically, all implementations *should* do the same thing. So, yeah, we need to have this discussion. That said, I think you do have a point. Option B does not fit into "do nothing" no matter how you look at it. That's one more strike against IMO. I also think that the above option D it not only a lot harder to implement, but also not intuitive at all. At least with A, B or C, the user can look at the resulting list(s) and get a few clues about what might be wrong in their source text. -- ---- Waylan Limberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Markdown-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/markdown-discuss
