:typed::[[wikilinks]] -- useful or redundant?

[manunamz]

This discussion is with regard to the wikirefs-spec package:

There are typed wikilinks that look similar to wikiattrs, except they are rendered when there is no newline after the wikilink.

Like this: :type::[[wikilink]] -- with text after.

This sort of feels redundant and I thought about nixing it -- a typed wikilink could just be a wikiattr after all. But this one use case gave me pause:

- Here is some text.[^src]
- And some more.[^src]
- Third text.[^another-src]

[^src]: :source::[[book-1]]
[^another-src]: :another-source::[[book-2]]

If typed wikilinks are supported, then this syntax can exist: It allows multiple footnote markers to point to a single source, which then lists the typed wikilink. This means the wikilink can be sorted and filtered based on the src type and the wikilinks can be kept DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself).

But it is simpler and cleaner just to make typed wikilinks === wikiattrs.

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Should typed wikilinks be nixed or kept?
Thoughts and ideas appreciated!

[taylorhadden]

I would see wikilink attributes as a superset of typed wikilinks. There is nothing about the :type::[[WikiLink]] that requires the context of the rest of the line to understand it.