Positional cues or not

[Manuel M. T. Chakravarty]

Simon Marlow <simonmar@microsoft.com> wrote,

> > > But, some people clearly prefer a style which is easier on 
> > the eye, in
> > > which case the {--- -} and --- are fine by me.
> > 
> > Triple dashes are nice because they
> >     *  have low visual density (not too obtrusive)
> >     *  look the same for nested/end-of-line varieties without 
> > breaking H'98
> 
> I think we're arriving at a consensus here.  Anyone object?

It is the smallest evil of all the explicit tag solutions.
The text formatting problem outlined in my previous message
remains.  But I guess, we can always have a pre-processor
that converts files documented using positional cues only
into the standard format with explicit tags.

Cheers,
Manuel