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I don't know why they are using a star in code. like in code they call event by write "**event(new NewOrderAdded()) **".why they use star? when I try to code like that it gives me a syntax error.
Maybe it's theirs templating engine but something didn't get escaped. Search for ** on the instructions page to see what do they mean. But since they are on the both sides of the code, I guess it is markdown way to bold or somehow mark it but someone made a typo or something so it didn't render properly.
On the instruction page, I didn't find anything like this, and 2-3 questions contain the same code (**). Thanks for the help :)
**something** is markdown for bold text
I can use it here;
something
but if I accidentally put a space between the stars and the text then it is not rendered as bold
**something ** or
** something**
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