On 10 August 2010 11:09, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9 August 2010 17:04, Mark Clements (HappyDog) <[email protected]> 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).

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