On Saturday, 3 April 2021 at 12:18:56 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>Walter, the DDOC stuff, and especially the $(SCRIPT) part was a well done April fools joke ;)
It's such a good one, best one this year for me.
It works so well because it starts and ends truthfully: he actually implemented a long requested feature, and then only joked about the syntax. So you're kind of like "the implementation is a bit iffy, but it can be improved later".
Then when you go back to the post with hindsight, you wonder how you possibly fell for it.
>There already exists an elegant and well-established markup language that members of our community are well familiar with, which is what has been implemented today. I am, of course, talking about DDoc!
>Tables are even easier:
example with 4 different macros