This is a common styling hint for Markdown implementations, not supported in Remarkup (at the moment):

```php
$stuff = 1;
```

Remarkup only supports the language hint through the lang= parameter:

```lang=php
$stuff = 1;
```

It would be nice to understand Markdown language hint, because it looks similar and we can do that easily.

Some Markdown specifications:

https://github.github.com/gfm/#fenced-code-blocks

https://stackoverflow.com/editing-help#syntax-highlighting

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/markdown.html#code-spans-and-blocks

As a side info to somehow understand influence, GitHub was born in 2007 (also Differential), Stack Overflow in 2008, Phabricator was released in 2010, and GitLab in 2011.

In Remarkup

```php
cpp
python
```

In flavored markdown, the above is a lang=php with 2 lines (cpp and python)! See for example Stack Overflow, that eats the first line:

Our version must therefore be greatly sweetened.

As general indication we can say: