Enumerated lists without explicit number, ATX headings with explicit number

Spec
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It seems like this syntax tries to solve a problem that AsciiDoc or Atlassian’s Confluence Wiki Markup already addresses.

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Just for the record, Babelmark 3 shows that MD4C, which is aiming for Commonmark compliance, currently supports the no-number style:

. foo

) foo

but not with paired parentheses:

() foo

( ) foo

Pandoc, on the other hand, supports the number-sign style (when not running in strict mode):

#. foo

#) bar

(#) baz