[Doc-SIG] epydoc 1.0 release

[David Goodger]

Edward Loper wrote:
> I think that reST uses too many different inline markup constructs,
> that can interact with each other in weird and non-intuitive ways.

You're entitled to your opinion, of course.  But can you back up this
claim of "weird and non-intuitive" interaction?

> But constructs like ``this`` and
> #this# and `this`_ seem significantly less obvious to me.

Correction: #this# has no meaning in reStructuredText.

> I prefer a single unified inline markup syntax, that almost never
> requires any escaping.

To each his own. :-)  But please note that reStructuredText inline
markup rarely requires any escaping.

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