Possible Bug of List and Blockquote

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I am learning the implementation of commonmark.js while coming up an test case:

1. > 1. a
   > 1. b
   > 
   > 
   > 1. c  <- this should be part of the outer list

> 1. a
> 1. b
> 
> 
> 1. c <- this is the expected result

Live Example. I think the markdown-it’s output is the correct one.

While IMO it is a bug, but I don’t know what you guys think, so I post it here.

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I think you’re right, this does look like a bug. Smaller case:

1. > 1. a
   > 
   > 
   > 1. c  <- this should be part of the outer list

Could you put a bug report on jgm/cmark or jgm/commonmark.js?

Note: the “two blank lines breaks out of list” rule is under consideration for removal (see the “issues to resolve before 1.0” thread), so this might become irrelevant.

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Actually, it’s not clear this is a bug. The rule (5.3) says that “two blank lines end all containing lists.” Since the outer list does contain the inner one (albeit with a blockquote intermediary), maybe the current behavior is not wrong.

In any case, this is not clear enough in the spec.

I am inclined to remove the two-blank-lines rule anyway. The complexity it adds isn’t justified by what it gives us, in my opinion.

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