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what? why? backtick code comments/snippets from source text are. really not widely standardized, I don't think it makes sense to encourage them without an acco
by arthurcolle 6y ago
what? why?
backtick code comments/snippets from source text are. really not widely standardized, I don't think it makes sense to encourage them without an accompanying web standard, or at least some kind of standard
- Rumudiez 6y agoHN isn’t a web standard.
- arthurcolle 6y agoThe markup that it uses for comments should use one though - and apparently it does! Others have mentioned that it uses a subset of CommonMark as mentioned in your post's sibling comments. Thanks
- ihuman 6y agoThe page with HN's formatting options is a bit hidden (in the FAQ). I'm not surprised people don't know about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
- snazz 6y agoI'd say that CommonMark is a pretty widely-utilized standard defining formatting including `inline code` snippets.
- arthurcolle 6y agoGotcha, didn't realize it was standardized. I feel like I heard about CommonMark when it first was announced and I more or less wrote it off as another markup format, but thanks for the clarification. My poor little internet points <\3 sorry HN for the unforgivable offense of asking a benign question
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- boogies 6y agoCommonMark is some kind of standard, and HN’s current syntax is a subset of it.