Posted by David Dorward on 11/25/46 11:46

Blinky the Shark wrote:

> It just occurred to me that it seems like "<code>foo</code>"
> should make foo inert by definition. I mean, as part of the
> design intent of "<code>" it seems like using that implies "this
> is a representation of code, not code to be processsed here".

No, it just says that it is code. It is more than possible that an author
might want to give emphasis to part of it, or hyperlink sections (e.g. a
function call to a function definition), so it would be unhelpful for it to
prevent markup being processed.

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