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I've always been annoyed by markdown for one reason: [Link text](link.url) is backwards. URLs, particularly Wikipedia links, are so much more likely to have pa
by MiddleEndian 5y ago
I've always been annoyed by markdown for one reason: [Link text](link.url) is backwards.
URLs, particularly Wikipedia links, are so much more likely to have parens in them than they are to have square brackets. And users can choose link text much more easily than they can choose a URL. (Link text)[link.url] would have been much much better.
On the topic of Scroll, why is https://scroll.pub/screenshot.png https://scroll.pub/screenshot.png such a tiny screenshot? 300x201 pixels
- beepbooptheory 5y agoI always think of it like a function call with the URL as the parameter
- Madeindjs 5y agoURL syntax you described is exactly one used by Asciidoctor ( https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/syntax-quick-reference/#links https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/syntax-quick-re... )