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Ambiguity in unordered list item definition

Felix Queißner felix at masterq32.de

Sun May 31 11:34:54 BST 2020

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Hey!

It would be a shame to do that for the
sake of something so minor. Then again, maybe I should be less afraid
of breaking things. All the content that exists today will hopefully be
a small percentage of all the content what will be created...

Don't be afraid of breaking things for a better spec. I would stillconsider Gemini experimental, so that's okay.

My approach would be:

* Mark `*` at the begin of the line deprecated as a list identifier and to be removed in the next iteration of the spec * Declare " *" as the list identifier

It makes lists indented and stand out, also remove the ambiguity.

Right now, my parser would break on that, but it's an easy fix in prettymuch all programming languages as well as the plain text documents:

[]$ sed 's/^*/ */'

Regards- xq