Implicit Link Names

[Rad Geek]

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 10:30:45 +0100, european bob <bob at wolfwall.com> wrote:

. . . snip a bunch of stuff I agree with . . .

>> How about both?  Keep [this][] for consistancy with the explicit syntax 
>> (hey
>> -- it's already implemented!:) and add [[this]] for the "visual clarity"
>> version.

> I agree, I like [[this]]. However, we're going around in circles - this
> has already been suggested and thought of as "not a significant
> improvement" (it certainly doesn't save any characters; we're basically
> just arguing over the position of the final [).

It doesn't save any characters, to be sure, but neither do __any__ of the 
proposals except for [this]. I took it that 2 characters is not that big 
of a deal either way, and that the main reason for dissatisfaction with 
[this][] is not that it has two more characters than other proposals, but 
rather that those two more characters make it more disruptive to reading 
than, for example, [this] or [[this]], which have the advantage of (1) 
being symmetric, and (2) not being followed by a pair of tall characters 
that misdirect attention ...

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