Implicit Link Names

[Jason Clark]

On Apr 2, 2004, at 3:41 PM, Lou Quillio wrote:

> All of this really needs to be weighed against the benefits, though.  
> I want to be able to quote or re-factor myself in native MD a year 
> hence without having to pore over the new text, rooting-out link 
> conflicts.  Explicit referential links are such a boon it seems 
> gluttonous to want even more convenience.
>
I guess I just don't see the problem.  What I want to avoid is things 
like this:

	I just searched [Google][Google] for information about [dogs][dogs].
	
	[Google]: http://google.com
	[dogs]: http://www.google.com/search?q=dogs

To me it seems more intuitive to do this:
	I just searched [Google] for information about [dogs].

which is also more legible than this:
	I just searched [Google][] for information about [dogs][].

I don't believe that [text in brackets] is that common outside of the 
cited usages (email footnotes, MD links) that it would cause a problem.

> Oh and this, natch, is a minefield in any case:
>
>      Now is the time for all good men[link] to come to the aid of their
>      pseudomarkup.
>
I think I'm missing something here.  How do you want/expect this to 
behave?

Jason Clark <jason at jclark.org>
http://jclark.org/weblog/