Tightening the rules for literal `[` and `]` chars in link ids
    Jacob Rus 
    jrus at hcs.harvard.edu
       
    Mon Sep 25 16:42:34 EDT 2006
    
    
  
John Gruber wrote:
> *   We could also just tighten the rules for link ref IDs all the
>     way, and outright ban literal `[` and `]` chars in the IDs.
It has always seemed to me that links should just be 
"[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9._-]+", and maybe 2-3 other characters, but as few as 
possible.  There's no reason for a reference name that no one will ever 
see to have a creative title with lots of punctuation.
-Jacob
    
    
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