Yeah, but single-character really isn't a practical option. We're defining what amounts to a markup language here, so I need something odd enough to not generally appear in the text being marked up.
Really, the big question for the next generation (which is when all of this gets seriously reconsidered) is whether to stick with something like this (a C-ish symbolic language), or go over to the verbose side of the force and do it with XML. I go back and forth on that...
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Date: 2007-01-02 11:51 pm (UTC)Really, the big question for the next generation (which is when all of this gets seriously reconsidered) is whether to stick with something like this (a C-ish symbolic language), or go over to the verbose side of the force and do it with XML. I go back and forth on that...