When discussing code on HN, I often refer to functions and variables by name. When those names happen to be lowercased English words, I end up with unfortunate garden path sentences like, "I don't see a need for loops can't address".<p>I wish I could format the foregoing "for" as code — e.g., by enclosing it in backticks like I would in Markdown. I often settle for <i>italics</i>, but those are overloaded on HN by commenters who use them gratuitously for emphasis.<p>Would you find inline code formatting useful? If many people would, I'll comment in the Feature Requests thread and refer to this poll.