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Are you seriously suggesting language designers should care about every sort of markdown syntax that exists when determining how a language looks syntactically?

• estefan 11y ago
  Yes this was agreed on HN a few weeks ago. Maybe you missed the discussion "proposal for all new syntax to be HN markdown compatible"..? Try adding /s in your head and read again...
• twic 11y ago
  For the avoidance of doubt, my comment was intended as a humorous way to point out to the parent that they had got their code snippets mangled, and i am not seriously advocating Markdown-compatibility as a language feature. I'm curious, though, as to how you could possibly think i was being serious. Do you spend a lot of time interacting with people with insane ideas?