description term in LaTeX source

[Guenter Milde]

Dear LyX developers,

is there a reason why the label in a description list is enclosed in
brackets in the LaTeX source so that

  Simple 
    description term
  
  [bracketed] 
    description term 
    
becomes

  \begin{description}
    \item [{Simple}] description term
    \item [{{[}bracketed{]}}] description term 
  \end{description}
  
I understand the [ -> {[}, but would expect

  \begin{description}
    \item [Simple] description term
    \item [{[}bracketed{]}] description term 
  \end{description}

to work as good.

(There is no urge to change that in LyX, but as I am just working on the
rst2latex export for Docutils, I would like to know if I am going to
break something without this "safety measure".)

Günter