in reply to RFC: Highlighting portions of code

If it's code, it's code. To highlight any parts, just use whatever you would do with these doing a code revision, or writing code in a way readable to less informed programmers, that is: use comments.

IMHO that's the better solution, since following your proposals, highlighting would be lost downloading code.

--shmem 

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

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