Re: [O] Citation syntax: a revised proposal

[Rasmus]

Samuel Wales <address@hidden> writes:

> if everybody is already thinking along the same lines, great.

I think everybody is thinking along the lines, but some people want to not
have another link-morass :) In particular, I think we are trying hard to
avoid this situation:

    i just think the syntax we design should, if possible, be so general
    that it can be used for future features, *including 100% unrelated
    features*, and also for future subfeatures of any feature, including
    citations.

These days, my impression is that Org developers like to have [fn:·]
always be of a footnote type and *bold* always be of bold type.

> to me, that means plist or similar.

A lambda (that is a cite-subtype) is ∞ more customizable than a plist.
But at least by having a cite-like prefix Org forces you to write
something unappealing like,

        [cite:color-bar-pink-and-change-bar-to-baz: foo @bar]

Which might discourage you to something stupid.

A generalization of, say macros and link which look like [FUN: :key value]
or [FUN: arg]{:key value} may be appropriate, but it's something
different from the discussion at hand.

—Rasmus

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