list corner case

[Aristotle Pagaltzis]

* Waylan Limberg <waylan at gmail.com> [2008-09-08 15:30]:

> Although I seem to recall talk in the past about the following:

> 

> 1. foo

> - bar

> - baz

> 

> Where the first item sets the list as ordered, and the rest

> just defines the items. The argument made was that the author

> could then reorder, insert or delete any random item without

> feeling the need to renumber the items.


I thought this was attractive, but it occured to me that whenever
you want that, you can get it just as well by instead writing the
list this way:

1. foo
1. bar
1. baz


> Personally, I'm the type that's going to renumber the items

> anyway


If you kept Markdown documents in a version control system, you
would avoid that. :-)  (Renumbering items when shifting them
around can cause a lot of noise in diffs from spurious changes.)

Regards,
-- 
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>