numbered list bug in markdown.pl?

[Jacob Rus]

Waylan Limberg wrote:

> On 7/9/06, Carl-Johan Kihlbom <kihlbom at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I'm guessing it's because you have different indent levels. Try

>> removing the spaces before 1-9.

> 

> I'll second that. In my observation Python is very picky about the

> four spaces of indent, while Perl seems to notice any amount of indent

> (one space is often enough) even though the syntax[1] tells us we need

> four spaces. To see what I mean, try adding a couple more spaces to

> 1-9 in your example and run it through both to see what you get.

Yes, I realize it's picking things up as multiple indentation levels, 
but I offer that this is a bug, and that python markdown has this right. 
  Having numbers of numbered lists right-aligned seems like a legitimate 
method of writing them in plain text, and when there is *less* 
indentation, having a sublist formed is counter-intuitive to me.  I 
would prefer to have it keep them as part of the same list, but would 
possibly understand if it ended the current list and started a new one. 
  Making less-indented numbers into a sublist just seeems weird, 
especially since using 0-3 spaces to start the first list item is 
allowed by spec.

-Jacob