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Re:Beyond Markdown by defrost on Saturday July 01, 2023 @09:54PM (#36557401)
As a point of order;

\* more than 3\/4's of people may not feel that way, particularly those discussing snake\_case Vs CamelCase

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Re:Beyond Markdown by CrimsonChapulin on Saturday July 01, 2023 @10:20PM (#36557529)
That’s PascalCase, camelCase does not capitalize the first word.
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Re:Beyond Markdown by arcanemachiner on Saturday July 01, 2023 @10:35PM (#36557629)
Turns out that it's a contentious topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case

FWIW I use the same nomenclature as you, but that doesn't make it universal.

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Re:Beyond Markdown by overhead4075 on Saturday July 01, 2023 @10:25PM (#36557568)
New rule needs ~ when * or _ is used inside words, so your example wouldn't need escaping. E.g.,

dis~/cuss/~ing

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Re:Beyond Markdown by defrost on Saturday July 01, 2023 @10:29PM (#36557584)
with a similar caveat for 'obvious' fractions and divisions?
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Re:Beyond Markdown by avgcorrection on Sunday July 02, 2023 @06:06AM (#36560013)
You mean ¾?
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Re:Beyond Markdown by defrost on Sunday July 02, 2023 @06:15AM (#36560067)
Only if you can do that for, say, 937\/997.
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Re:Beyond Markdown by avgcorrection on Sunday July 02, 2023 @07:45AM (#36560521)
937⁄997

You need U+2044 FRACTION SLASH.

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Re:Beyond Markdown by qingcharles on Sunday July 02, 2023 @02:01PM (#36563906)
I honestly had no idea you could do that in Unicode with arbitrary values. Thank you.
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