Yeah, I just tried that in the C++ forum. Tried to post this:


[code][B][/B]./calcAverage 5 8 1 4[/code]

It added the C++ code tags, I would imagine since there's nothing to be bolded. Stick an empty space in between the Bold tags and that has no effect. Stick a printable character in between the Bold tags and it has the effect you mentioned. What if you want nothing bolded, as I did not?

I like it better the old way, where nothing was assumed and language-specific code tags were added only at the poster's option. Gives you more control of the post. Worse, the changes are retroactive. Posts prior to the change have the syntax added where it wasn't intended. I'm seeing it all over the place. Here's one of my old threads, chosen at random, See the bottom part of post 1. Syntax has been added where none was intended, so it doesn't look very good.

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread147949.html

Can pre-change posts at least no longer be parsed this way? Check the post date and see if it was pre-change and parse it differently based on that?

The way I found best is by putting a dot between the [b].[/b] tags. So the following is an example of what your code should have looked like:

[code][B].[/B]/calcAverage 5 8 1 4[/code]

You can do [code=text] to disable syntax highlighting completely:

text Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)

./calcAverage 5 8 1 4

./calcAverage 5 8 1 4

They're not even backwards compatible with the old language tags (cplusplus, csharp, etc)