on the philosophical aspects of a specification

[John MacFarlane]

> A list item's parent is the most recent list item whose bullet is indented 

> less than its own.  If there's no such parent, then the item belongs to a 

> root-level list.

>

> http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/2008-March/001076.html

>

> Is there any case where this doesn't do the right thing?


I think this is a good proposal.  The only case I can think of where
it gives intuitively wrong results is this (which involves roman
numerals, not currently supported in core Markdown, though they are in
Pandoc):

   i. one
  ii. two
 iii. three
  iv. four
   v. five

But, on balance, I think this proposal is the best I've seen --
certainly better than expecting users to know the four-space indent
rule.

John