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One of the most unhelpful things about Go's pointer syntax is that it collides with HN's italics syntax. Hence, in your second paragraph, i see declarations which differ only in the slope of the type. Really, does nobody think of this when designing a language?

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Are you seriously suggesting language designers should care about every sort of markdown syntax that exists when determining how a language looks syntactically?

Take a step back and think about your statement...

Yes this was agreed on HN a few weeks ago. Maybe you missed the discussion "proposal for all new syntax to be HN markdown compatible"..?

Try adding /s in your head and read again...

For the avoidance of doubt, my comment was intended as a humorous way to point out to the parent that they had got their code snippets mangled, and i am not seriously advocating Markdown-compatibility as a language feature.

I'm curious, though, as to how you could possibly think i was being serious. Do you spend a lot of time interacting with people with insane ideas?

No, it's an unhelpful thing about HN having a terrible partial subset of markdown: ignoring that every other markdown implementation under the sun has more supported markup, all of them provide ways to escape markup characters and inline code sections which ignore markup characters.

I'm on hacker news, so I can't actually tell if you're making a joke or not.

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