Code blocks and backslashes

[John Gruber]

Lou Quillio <public at quillio.com> wrote on 12/13/04 at 1:25am:

> Code spans and blocks, and explicit markup (inline and block) should
> be completely literal.  True statement with 1.0.1b8?

Yes, exactly. Other than the line-leading indentation for code
blocks, and the delimiting backticks for code spans.

Where by "literal", however, I mean that it's what you *want*, not
literally what you wrote. &'s and <'s are still entity-encoded
automatically -- but that's the whole reason Markdown's code blocks
and spans are so cool.

-J.G.