I think you have misunderstood me. Any perl program that uses arrays (which will be a good chunk of them) is highly likely to contain code that has [...] in it. Which _requires_ that the user know the html entity name for square brackets or requires that the user wrap even trivial code snippets in code tags. By using a shortcut pattern that is extremely unlikely to occur in the language this would have been avoided. Its the same reason that tye recommends using [[shortcut]] except IMO that pattern occurs all to often in perl code (arrays of arrays) so something even less likely to be found in code would be IMO better.

The base point i think is that it shouldnt be necessary to wrap stuff in code tags. Doing so should work and maintain indentation and etc, but it shouldnt be required just to post a trivial piece of code.

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demerphq

In reply to Re^4: Web forum markup language and the Monastery ([[...]]) by demerphq
in thread Web forum markup language and the Monastery by szabgab

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and:  <code> code here </code>
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