Implicit Link Names

[european bob]

On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 15:23, Rad Geek wrote:
> > 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].

All the single-char suffixs save a character.

> 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 ...

I don't the characters are a big issue. I think [this][] is less of an
issue than is made out, too. But, I do prefer [[this]], for the reasons
you outline above. 

--bob.