The hard part is finding out which elements are named the same in both HTML and Perlmonks, but act differently. <code> for instance means something else in HTML than in Perlmonks.
code tags are something I use often enough that they're
not hard to remember.
But I still haven't figured out how the <a> element is working on Perlmonks.
Hmmm. I haven't run into that one. As near as I
can tell, it works like in regular HTML. Must be I
just haven't tried the right (or wrong) thing yet.
Easier to remember, but not easier to type.
Agreed, I find having to escape the left square bracket
annoying (I did say it was one of my two pet annoyances
on pm, didn't I?), and doing the editing in a browser
textarea
control instead of a real editor doesn't help this any.
Sometimes I'm tempted to do a whole post in Emacs and
copy-and-paste it over. Sometimes I do that. I
suppose the bracket syntax for perlmonks was taken
from E2 and/or Wiki, but I've always wondered why the
same things couldn't be done with angle brackets...
How It Is | How It Could Have Been |
[jonadab]
| <node jonadab>
|
[id://328276]
| <id 328276>
|
[cpan://Net::Server::POP3]
| <cpan Net::Server::POP3>
|
[Newest Nodes]
| <node Newest Nodes>
|
[weird syntax >= escaping]
| <node "weird syntax >= escaping">
|
However, retrofitting those changes now would be quite
painful, as all existing nodes would be impacted (and
that's ignoring developing and testing the code for
the changes).
At least in POD
Please, no POD. I do *not* want to try deal with
significant whitespace in a feature-impoverished
browser textarea, and if you think getting newbies
to use code tags and whatnot is hard with an HTML-like
markup, just you think about trying to convince
newbies who want help with PERL that they should
post their question with POD markup. Gah. Gives
me the heebie-jeebies just thinking about it.
$;=sub{$/};@;=map{my($a,$b)=($_,$;);$;=sub{$a.$b->()}}
split//,".rekcah lreP rehtona tsuJ";$\=$ ;->();print$/