On mer, 2002-02-27 at 13:55, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Brion L. VIBBER wrote:
Question: why do we have the separate forms [X]
for external links and
[[X]] for internal links? Unless we're going to add http:, ftp:, news:
or mailto: namespaces, I don't see much possibility of conflict.
There may be good historical reasons I am not aware of.
"Good" I don't know, but the historical reasons are these:
In the original UseMod, CamelCase was internal, and [] was external.
We wanted spaces, so someone came up wtih the idea of [[]].
(thunks head) Ah, right. [
http://some.url Better title] vs
[Some Topic|Better title]
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)