<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The standard<a href="https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/0000-template.md" class=""> Swift Evolution proposal template</a> includes the following introduction section:<div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">## Introduction</pre></div><div class=""><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">A short description of what the feature is. Try to keep it to a</pre></div><div class=""><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">single-paragraph "elevator pitch" so the reader understands what</pre></div><div class=""><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">problem this proposal is addressing. </pre></div><div class=""><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">
</pre></div><div class=""><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Swift-evolution thread: <b class="">[Discussion thread topic for that proposal]</b>(<a href="https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution" class="">https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution</a>)</pre></pre></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Swift Evolution email subjects commonly use square brackets in the subject line. This email does just that: "<i class="">[META] Swift Evolution Proposals and Discussion Links</i>". To create a valid markdown link, you must escape the square brackets. The following markup is malformed:</div><div class=""><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Swift-evolution thread: [[META] Swift Evolution Proposals and Discussion Links](<i class="">gmane or pipermail url</i>)</pre><div class="">Add backslashes before square brackets within the topic:</div></div><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Swift-evolution thread: [\[META\] Swift Evolution Proposals and Discussion Links](<i class="">gmane or pipermail url</i>)</pre><div class="">Escaping enables Github to distinguish the bracket-deliniated text from the parenthesized URL.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-- E</div></body></html>