[Doc-SIG] reST block quotes

[fantasai]

David Goodger wrote:
 >
> The Email Reader would probably have to disable doctest blocks unless
> explicitly requested.
> 
>>Requiring at least one space before the quote character
>>might not be a bad idea. It improves readability IMO.
> 
> Obvious from your message ;).  My emailer doesn't do it that way
> though and it would be onerous to require it.

It does solve the doctest problem, though. The requirement
could be switched off with doctest blocks. We'll have
a "Python documentation mode" and an "everything else"
mode. ;)

>>Come to think of it, the current syntax can't really
>>handle nested blockquotes well, can it? Not if there's
>>a quote at the beginning of another quote.
> 
> Try it; works fine.

Impressive. :)

I don't think the source would be very easy to follow
with a complicated set of quotes, but that is mostly
an electronic message problem. Most documents don't
even have two levels of nested quotes.

~fantasai