Implicit Link Names

[John Gruber]

european bob <bob at wolfwall.com> wrote on 04/03/04 at 4:07p:

> If there's no particular nice alternative to [this], can we attack the
> problem by chasing the other ambiguity - i.e., by somehow noting when
> you want the brackets to _not_ indicate a link? Which is going to be
> more popular - using brackets to denote links, or for other uses? My
> instinct is that creating links would be more popular, and therefore
> deserves the shorter form, but I may be wrong. \[this] does at least
> look escaped-ish, and therefore 'literal', and you have the \-escapes
> notion already in Markdown. Is that a goer?

I think it's too drastic to require literal brackets to be escaped
all the time. The whole point of Markdown's link syntax is that it
should almost never collide with literal brackets. We're trying to
have our cake and eat it too.

-J.G.