Perlmonks tags have a unique syntax for abbreviating URLs. I get plenty of messages from people informing me that I should switch:

<a href=http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=646560>here</a>
[download]

to something like :

[id://646560|here]
[download]

but I cannot remember the right syntax. And I dont enjoy having to remember yet another HTML shorthand: I already have Markdown, Asciidoc, GoogleCode, MoinMoin, reStructuredText and more to confuse me.

So instead of telling us what to put there, it should be an easy parse to transform it.

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