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!The case for using asterisk (*) rather than dash (-) for bulleted lists:
a) dash for bulleted list is not collision free: it collides with ---- for rule when lists are nested 4 deep. It also collides with --- (3 dashes) for rule, which is used by some wikis (including TWiki, which is signing up for Creole).
b) asterisk for bulleted list is collision free. (Actually I think it was probably the mistaken belief that asterisk for bulleted list would collide with asterisk for bold that caused the decision to use dash). How is the collision avoided? Fairly simply, by using the rule that lists must be of the form: "**<space>list item" and that bold is of the form "**<nospace>bold**". (The possibility of a collision only occurs for lists nested two deep).
c) The collision is successfully avoided by the five most popular commercial wiki engines with markup ([Confluence], [PBWiki], [Socialtext], [Wikispaces] and StikiPad): they all use * for bulleted lists and either * or ** for bold.
d) All of the top 10 open source wikis that use * or ** for bold also use * for bulleted lists ([TWiki], DokuWiki and PhpWiki).
e) * is almost universally used for bulleted lists. Of the 59 wikis on wikimatrix that have markup for bulleted lists indicated, 46 use * and only 3 use -.
(Sorry my late posting, I've only just stumbled upon this site.)
-- [MartinBudden], 2006-09-10
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