Good ideas.

I've seen a bit of carping and resistance to providing non-perl-centric shortcuts. I'd like to propose that we can have our cake an eat it too, since what we're really talking about is where we fall on the bell curve of generality.

Obviously this site is well served by Perl-specific shortcuts.

Nearly as obviously, there's no point in providing shortcuts to alternate programming languages (yah?), political sites, religious sites (like real monasteries, for instance), etc.

However, there exists utility on the web that is ubiquitous to any web experience, including topical sites. I think the suggestions above fall into acceptable ubiquity. We see this with ISBN, etc.

Consider it not on the grounds of how Perl specific it is, but rather on how it stands in a Huffman-encoding sense. If lots of monks make such references, then a shortcut makes sense.

Personally, I vote for an imdb shortcut, for the CB if nothing else.

Matt

In reply to Re: New types of links by mojotoad
in thread New types of links by brianarn

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