Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell Weekly News: Issue 187

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Felipe Almeida Lessa < felipe.lessa@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Rogan Creswick wrote:

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Short, obfsucated, urls may direct you places you don't want to go, but I fail to see how that concern applies to HWN: since each url is accompanied by a description of its content, that seems to obviate the need to see the actual url. In most cases, the text also indicates the domain that you will visit, so you can avoid supporting stackoverflow with page impressions if you wish (for example).

It is also possible to borrow half of Slashdot's system and write something like

http://goo.gl/G081Q [article.gmane.org]

Is that a good compromise?

That is a nice in-situ style. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the footnote proponents' main argument is that its lightweight nature causes less of an interruption when reading the text. I think its fair to say that those who RTFA more often would benefit most from in-situ and those who rarely RTFA benefit most from the footnote style. I'm in the former group, but who knows what most people do? David -- David Sankel Sankel Software www.sankelsoftware.com