From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2009-09-04T00:27:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Better RDoc Inline Markup

On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Intransition<transfire@gmail.com> wrote:

> RDoc's SimpleMarkup  doesn't catch all the cases of  inline markup
> that is really useful for a Ruby documentation. I think it's checking
> for \w+ only, but adding some other punctuation marks would be
> helpful. Namely, none of the following work b/c of punctuation marks:
>
>  +ActiveRecord::Base+
>
>  +merge!+
>
>  +is_a?+
>
>  +name=+
>
>  +object.call+

Another gotcha are symbols:

    +:select+