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21:53:16
Shinmera
I'm considering heavily revising Markless and disallowing repeat patterns on inline directives
21:53:48
Shinmera
meaning //foo// is no longer parsed as "foo" in italics, but rather two empty italics and a regular foo in the middle
21:54:38
Shinmera
There's already backslash escaping, so I don't know why this convention even exists except for it to be more like Markdown
21:54:47
Shinmera
It's not even intuitive either I would say
21:55:32
Shinmera
Doing so will massively simplify the parsing for a lot of directives since we won't need backreferences anymore
21:56:11
Shinmera
The only place where I can see the benefit of this is for inline code expressions, since there backslashes should be literals
21:56:27
Shinmera
but even that I'm not too sure about.
21:56:43
Shinmera
Might be better to streamline backslashes to take precedence everywhere
21:57:01
Shinmera
mood: isoraqathedh: gingerale: ^ thoughts?