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Subject: Re: Bug: LaTeX export #+NAME failing [8.3.1
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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 09:16:01 +0200
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Andrew Davis <amdavis@uchicago.edu> writes:

> Could you just briefly let me know why this is a feature? I am
> assuming that this is so that org references are unique should you
> accidentally reuse a label?

The main reason is that it puts much less restrictions on the name of
internal links and is more portable across back-ends.

Regards,