The Ping Plan

[Chris Purcell]

> Actually, linking URLs without angle-bracket delimiters is slightly
> ambiguous. The main problem is with punctuation:
>
>     Just go to http://example.com/foo.
>
> But I suppose a reasonable guess can be made that the last character
> of a URL shouldn't be in the class [.,;].
>
> This is a somewhat common request, so I'll probably hook it up.

A fair amount of time has been devoted to this problem in Wiki engines. 
Not sure where to find the "best" fragment - I think one was developed 
that included internal brackets like 
http://www.example.com/(internalbracket) and excluded external ones 
(like http://www.example.com/externalbracket) - but you could ask on 
[c2][], or perhaps [OddMuse][].

Chris

	[c2]: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki
	[OddMuse]: http://www.oddmuse.org/