Character reference being detected in code block

[backkem]

I have a build failing on a file that didn't change:

• Last green build (Bikeshed 3.14.5)
• Failed build (Bikeshed 4.0.0)

It seems the piece of code &result is being interpreted as a HTML Character reference. I wonder if this may be a regression or if I should somehow escape this character instead.

[tabatkins]

That error is correct - that's technically a parse error in HTML.

(Bikeshed is slightly more strict than HTML itself here; in HTML, if the &foo isn't actually on the list of char ref names, it's technically valid in HTML. That's a really fragile sort of error, given the sheer size and unpredictability of that list, and the fact that prefixes count (like, &copyright is caught because "copy" is on the list, generating a parse error and the text "©right"). In your case, result doesn't actually have a prefix on the list (closest is "Re"). So Bikeshed errs slightly stricter, but much more predictably, and flags anything which looks like a character reference.)

Yeah, you can either escape the ampersand (&) or switch your pre to xmp (tho that won't work in your case, since you have markup there).