Feature request: a way to escape an asterisk. Sometimes you do want to write a l... | Hacker News

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		jey on April 16, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.yc... Feature request: a way to escape an asterisk. Sometimes you do want to write a literal asterisk. (E.g. to say "a times b")

ralph on April 17, 2007 [–]

How about * yielding *.

Cheers, Ralph.

jey on July 24, 2007 | [–]

This hack worked great until the recent change that stopped the evaluation of sequences of * and &. Again there's no way to get a literal asterisk that I know of.

rplevy on July 9, 2008 | | [–]

I second this, I can't find any way to display an asterisk.

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