Colon before Code Blocks

[Alexander Johannes]

Hello,

i cant see why it is necessary to put a colon before the paragraph,  
that should be formatted as a code block. I know, that i can put a  
space before the colon, so that it dont appears in the output, but i  
also would like to provide the pure markdown-formatted text to post it  
to the usenet, or print it. In this cases, the single colon occurs a  
little bit misplaced. Currently i'm reformatting  
<http://faq.de-soc-mac.de/> to use Markdown and i found several  
articles, where i have to put a colon before a code block, though it  
wouldn't be necessary, when you consider the context of the paragraph  
or sentence.
Maybe i should provide an example°, even if it is in german:

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Durch die Eingabe von

     sudo diskutil disableJournal /

kann man diese Aktion rückgängig machen.
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This is better readable than typing

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Durch die Eingabe von `sudo diskutil disableJournal /` kann man diese  
Aktion rückgängig machen.
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At the moment i have to write

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Durch die Eingabe von :

     sudo diskutil disableJournal /

kann man diese Aktion rückgängig machen.
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to force Markdown to format the second line as exspected. This is  
semantically wrong.

To come to an end: is there a technical reason, doing it this way, or  
do i have to exspect a change in a future Release of Markdown? If it  
has already discussed at the past, i would be glad, if you point me to  
that discussion in the archive.

Apart from that, i'm very happy with Markdown, because i felt instantly  
home, wehen i started using it. Thanks for the great work :)!

Alex

°) The example is taken from  
<http://faq.de-soc-mac.de/systempflege/ 
wie_verhalte_ich_mich_nach_einem_systemabsturz_unter_os_x.shtml> resp.  
<http://faq.de-soc-mac.de/systempflege/ 
wie_verhalte_ich_mich_nach_einem_systemabsturz_unter_os_x.text>.
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