On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Robert Rohde rarohde@gmail.com wrote:
In practice it is very rare to have a ref be placed inside the content of another ref, so the problem of nested refs will almost never come up, but it is something to be aware of if one is considering any mass effort to relocate refs inside the references block.
Hmm, doesn't seem completely unbelievable...I won't contrive an example now, but I can imagine one.
But anyway can a bot detect these cases and just ignore them?
Yes, the nested ref syntax is sufficiently weird that it shouldn't be too hard to train a bot to recognize and ignore those cases.
Of course, you'd also have to build consensus for any project to mass move refs.
-Robert Rohde