[spec] Ambiguity with regards to quote lines

[Omar Polo]

alex wennerberg <alex at alexwennerberg.com> writes:

> Hi all --
>
> I noticed there may be a bit of ambiguity in the spec:
>
>> Lines beginning with ">" are quote lines.  This line type exists so
>> that advanced clients may use distinct styling to convey to readers the
>> important semantic information that certain text is being quoted from
>> an external source.  For example, when wrapping long lines to the the
>> viewport, each resultant line may have a ">" symbol placed at the front.
>
> What isn't clear is whether subsequent quote lines ought to be
> considered as part of the same quote block, ie, say my client surrounds
> quotations with " marks. Should these marks surround each line, or
> surround an entire block of subsequent quote lines?
>
> The clients that I tested did the latter, and this seems intuitively
> correct, but the spec doesn't make this explicit.

The spec says that the only state that a parser need to keep is the one
for the preformatted block, so I guess the intention is to treat
subsequent quotes as distinct quotes, the same way subsequent paragraphs
are considered distinct.

> Let me know what you all think.
>
> All the best,
>
> Alex