Re: Dash-escaping clarification

[David Shaw <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 10:16:45PM +0000, Adam Back wrote:
> 
> Hmm I don't think it would be a good idea to allow dash-escaping of
> literally anything because then you can't reverse the transformation
> and '- ' is commonly used for bullet points where as the other cases
> ----- separated nested PGP signatures and other content types are not
> common, and 'From ' is a prexisting common exception.

I don't see how there would be a problem in reversing the
transformation.

- bullet point
becomes
- - bullet point
and reverses back to
- bullet point

random text
becomes
- random text
and reverses back to
random text

David