arundelo comments on Natural Laws Are Descriptions, not Rules - Less Wrong

32 Post author: pragmatist 08 August 2012 04:27AM

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Comment author: shokwave 12 August 2012 04:19:33PM -1 points [-]

Why does the MarkDown italics mark-up work even within words, anyway?

It's probably less work to read character-by-character than to split on words and read the first and last character of each.

Comment author: arundelo 12 August 2012 04:44:26PM 3 points [-]

And it makes the rare-but-still-occasionally-desired case doable without escaping into HTML (which is not possible in LW's no-HTML subset of Markdown).