[WikiEN-l] Why are URLs numbered?

[Steve Bennett]

On 9/5/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, I kind of like it that way. It's quite often helpful in
> discussions when a series of links or diffs is presented, and they're
> already identified by the context around them, since it doesn't make a
> massively long page.

I'm not clear about what you like: the fact that [1] is short, or the
fact that the 13th url is actually labelled [13]? Why is that useful?

Steve