Possible bug in Markdown.pl with `<<` handling

[John Gruber]

Michel Fortin <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote on 9/11/06 at 6:48 PM:


> Your first suggestion, escaping `<`, doesn't work as Markdown doesn't  

> consider `<` to be an escapable character. I'd be interesting if it  

> did however, as it is currently impossible to write anything like a  

> <tag> outside a code span or a code block.


That might be reasonable.

I hate writing escapes in Markdown, because every time I need to
use one I only remember it *after* I first publish without it,
but, in cases like this, it's better to add an escape to make
something possible than to leave something as impossible.

-J.G.