The Ping Plan

[Jelks Cabaniss]

Justin Mason wrote:
>       My name is Justin and my homepage is here [jmhome].
> 
>           [jm_home]: http://jmason.org/
> 
> - - (a) should the "[jmhome]" text remain as plain-text, on the
>   assumption that it was a quoted footnote from e.g. an email?
> 
> - - (b) should it be assumed that "[jmhome]" was a typo, and a warning
>   issued, and the text remain as plain-text?
> 
> - - (c) should it be assumed that "[jmhome]" was a typo, and a warning
>   issued, and the "[jmhome]" text be stripped from the output?
> 
> I originally did (a), but then changed it to (c), as I kept typo'ing
> link refs by accident, and they looked ugly in the output.  Both are
> a little suboptimal.   Eventually I changed the default link format
> to avoid supporting this syntax because of this confusion.

I think you were right the first time, with (a).  The other two are
essentially variations on a "<DWIM> tag" (Do What I Mean), which invariably
end up as a rat's nest.

As to typos, I empatithize.  :)


/Jelks