on the philosophical aspects of a specification

[david parsons]

In article <1F9AE98D-CD1E-424D-8B4C-584055CBFC90 at attacklab.net>,
John Fraser  <markdown-discuss at six.pairlist.net> wrote:

>

>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?


   When I write a really long list,

    *  sometimes, after a particularly long and
       detailed list item, I'll lose track of the
       exact indentation and 
     * add one too many spaces to the leading
       indent.

    so it would be bad if that broke nesting.


    -david parsons