tarquin wrote:
aaarg!
anchors are bad.
if you need to drop into the middle of an article then
you have two
articles that ought to be split.
Absolutely. Thus we shouldn't support [[foo#bar]].
(These would be impossible to maintain anyway,
since people would change the names of anchors in [[foo]]).
OTOH, if you need to move around in a single article,
then this doesn't follow. Thus we could support [[#bar]].
(And maintenance would be confined to a single article's edits.)
could we drop it?
If there keep being people that want anchors, then apparently not.
You may find the conclusion crystal-clear and flagrantly obvious,
but others -- who have had this conversation with you before -- don't.
So asking to drop it won't convince them (but might insult them).
-- Toby