The Ping Plan

Jelks Cabaniss jelks at jelks.nu
Fri Apr 30 01:13:44 EDT 2004


Aaron Swartz wrote:
> Basically, he wanted this common idiom to work:
>     Foo bar baz.[1]
> 
>     [1]: http://lfw.org/
> 
> Which just happens to work if we implement this:
>     [The President] is a miserable failure.
> 
>     [The President]: http://whitehouse.gov/
> 
> So that's good.  He also wanted the :s to be optional
...
> I don't see why any of these wouldn't work; other than the first,
> they're all pretty unambiguous.

How is the first any more ambiguous than the second?

(I love the ideas though -- "just like email"!)


/Jelks



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