Backtick Hickup

[Allan Odgaard]

On Aug 9, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:


> Le 2007-08-08 à 18:29, Milian Wolff a écrit :

>

>> [...]

>> # Input:

>>

>>     Backtick: ``\```

>>

> [...] To come to this result, Markdown first see two blocks of  

> backticks, one of two backticks `` and one of tree ``` with a  

> backslash \ inbetween. [...]


I would have expected it to see first two back-ticks, then scan  
forward until another two back-ticks are seen (since the open-token  
defines the close-token) and thus give this output:

     <p>Backtick: <code>\</code>`</p>

I know most Markdown parsers do not follow conventional parser  
wisdom, but IMO this is also the interpretation that suits an  
incremental tokenizer/parser best compared to your interpretation,  
which requires a look-ahead to potentially the end of the document,  
each time one or more back-ticks are seen.