Re: [Docutils-users] citation reference name: permissible characters

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, David Goodger apparently wrote:
> YAGNI (you ain't gonna need it). Added complexity for no gain. 
> You're going to have to show us some compelling use cases first. 

I have no strong feelings on this.
I was just responding to the example::

   .. [a+b] a thing
   .. [a:b] another

The proposed substitution of a ``-`` for illegal
characters produced a name clash.  So I proposed
``--`` and ``..`` (two lines and two dots, just
like in the replaced characters) to avoid this
clash (and be more intuitively linked to the
original name).  That was my main point.

I'll be happy with either!

Cheers,
Alan