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Your and GP's make no sense unless the reader knows that * is a markdown directive and infers where you typed them. Which is ironic when discussing overloading
by psd1 3y ago
Your and GP's make no sense unless the reader knows that * is a markdown directive and infers where you typed them.
Which is ironic when discussing overloading!
- dataflow 3y agoIn confused, where in my comment does the Markdown syntax come into play? You're not seeing italics or backslashes are you?
- psd1 3y agoI see now - Hacki renders italics, but the browser doesn't. Excuse my confusion, this possibility didn't occur to me.
- fanf2 3y agoHacker News does not use Markdown.
- masklinn 3y agoWhile that’s technically true, it does use a severely cut down version thereof which is worse in every way: it only supports paragraphs, code blocks, and emphasis so the ability to format is extremely limited but the emphasis can still screw you over, which requires an explicit preview (or posting) to notice. And I think escaping emphasis was only introduced somewhat recently? I do remember that for the longest time you basically had to trick HN into not breaking your comments by using a different character in stead.
- OJFord 3y agoNo, but it does use: * for italics, which sometimes causes a comment to go haywire because someone uses it to reference a footnote or otherwise drops it in mid-sentence, with a matching closing one, not intending italics. (Up-thread I think it probably was like that when they commented, but has since been fixed.)