On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:54 AM, stevertigo<stvrtg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Gwern Branwen<gwern0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:46 PM, Thomas
Larsen<larsen.thomas.h(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If I may make a suggestion? That syntax is kind
of clunky - maybe we
could have a simpler syntax, something like '{{ref|foo}}' &
'{{note|foo}: text'...
Reviving a year-old thread? Hm.
Related note: Bodnotbod dropped us a link:
-Stevertigo
That was actually the thread that reminded me; but I couldn't resist
the chance to point out the irony of how recent referencing
discontents have come full circle from the {{ref}} days.
It took about 3 years to put in place references ('01 to '04/'05),
another 3 switch from {{ref}} to <ref> and grow weary of it ('05 to
now), so I suppose in 2014 or 2015, people will be complaining about
how opaque references in a different section are, how hard to keep in
sync with the article text, and how in programming we put the docs
right with the functions/methods and why-can't-we-do-that?, and
suggest switching to this new referencing system...
--
gwern