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

[Michel Fortin]

Le 13 sept. 2006 à 6:29, Fletcher T. Penney a écrit :


> Perhaps I am ignoring something obvious - but when does `<<` ever  

> occur in XHTML?

> Shouldn't it be a safe assumption that Markdown should convert any  

> string of multiple `<`'s in a row into `&lt;`'s?


`<<` doesn't occur in valid HTML or XHTML. But we are talking about  
Markdown, not HTML.

The question is how to disambiguate text from tags in Markdown?  
Currently this is very simple: if something looks like a tag, then it  
is treated as a tag. Markdown sees `<<tag>>` as a valid tag  
surrounded by `<` and `>`.

But that does not mean it's the right thing to do. Does `<<tag>>`  
looks like a tag? I suppose it's debatable. To me it looks more like  
French quotes.


Michel Fortin
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