I'm sending this in mail form, as I'm currently in an airplane , and i didn't trust myself to remember to post about it later =) We have a link hook for a reason, yet it's impossible to add links to the terms. ( i wanted to add a link to the user's blog, instead of it cluttering up the comments / read more.). From the comments :

* if (module_exists('taxonomy')) { * $this->links(taxonomy_link('taxonomy terms', $node)); * }

Umm. this doesn't make sense, as we don't use objects in drupal, and we have no 'links' method defined for any object. Why should taxonomy link be called any differently from any other link hook ?

function taxonomy_link($type, $node = NULL) { if ($type == 'taxonomy terms' && $node != NULL) {

That kind of makes sense, Except we expressly are supposed to not call it with module_invoke_all, which means 'taxonomy terms' is completely pointless in this case. It gets even more pointless later.

// We call this hook again because some modules and themes call taxonomy_link('taxonomy terms') directly foreach (module_implements('link_alter') AS $module) { $function = $module .'_link_alter'; $function($node, $links); }

My point is they shouldn't be. calling it directly. Also, what's so special about this snippet of code that we can't wrap it in drupal_get_links($links_id, $object) ? It's far more consistent that way, and that could be done in themes. The other GLARING issue is that link alter doesn't have the link type as one of the parameters. Imagine trying to do a form_alter if you didn't even know which form you were busy altering? Crazy, right. I hope to science it's not too late to change this. As it depreciates the usefulness of the _links imo.