Backtick Hickup

Jacob Rus jacobolus at gmail.com
Mon Aug 20 17:45:10 EDT 2007


John MacFarlane wrote:

> If the suggestion is that the lexer is going to identify '**' as

> a "strong emphasis marker" and '*' as an "emphasis marker," prior

> to any parsing, I don't see how that's possible. Consider

>

> ***bold** in italics*

>

> ***italics* in bold**

>

> There's no way of knowing whether the initial two *'s should start

> strong emphasis unless you scan forward.


I really don't see why it can't recognize *** as a unique token, and
figure out how to do the right thing by just adding a few more rules.
This doesn't seem like an insoluble problem to me.

-Jacob



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