On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Robert Rohde
<rarohde(a)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