Reconsidering "two blank lines breaks out of lists"

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It occurs to me that, since we already have the \ for line break, why not use it for “block break” as well?:

    code block 1
\
    code block 2

Two lists:
1. item
2. item
\
1. item
2. item

A line with just a \ would be a (non-fenced) block terminator.

Of course this doesn’t solve ambiguities in old documents (which still need to be standardized), but it would make authoring new documents simpler.

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