getting test added to the standard test suite.
Jacob Rus
jrus at hcs.harvard.edu
Wed Aug 30 23:49:31 EDT 2006
John Gruber wrote:
> Hmm, this is interesting.
>
> Most of these seem straightforward as to what the results should
> be, but this one seems weird to me:
>
> reference [**test**][]
>
> [test]: http://foo.com/
> [**test**]: http://bar.com/
>
> My gut feeling is that the current result from Markdown.pl is correct:
>
> <p>reference <a href="http://bar.com/"><strong>test</strong></a></p>
>
> but it does seem like a weird thing to write.
This really feels wrong to me. If it were up to me, this would just
break, and users would get back something like `[**test**][]`, because
supporting this across versions is going to be a big hassle, and there's
no reason anyone can't simply use [**test**][test] instead, which makes
for much nicer references. The reference name should be text, not markup!
-Jacob Rus
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