The only hard part is remembering which of the less common but harmless and useful HTML tags don't work.
No, no, no. 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. But I still haven't
figured out how the <a> element is working on Perlmonks. Sometimes, it creates a link. Sometimes it appears
as is.
That, and remembering the entity for escaping the left square bracket. (I usually just put code tags around it. Easier to remember.)
Easier to remember, but not easier to type. Having to type
13 extra characters to be able to type a common
character in Perl isn't what I say "easy". At least in POD,
you only need three extra characters: C<[>. And in POD, you
don't even have to put any markup around a function() or a $variable. POD knows.
If you want to see some needlessly complicated and gratuitously different site markup, have a look at Wikipedia sometime.
Actually, I've contributed some bits to Wikipedia the last
week. I vastly prefer the [[link]] syntax
over [link] as it means one can use unescaped
left brackets if they aren't followed by another left bracket. [..] is common when discussing perl. [[..]] is a rare appearance
in Perl code. I also prefer mechanisms like ''foo''
or *bar* to make something emphasized/italics or
strong/bold, like Wikis or news/mail readers do.
Abigail
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