In a Drupal view, one of the presentation options for a selected field is to have the field be a link to its node. What if you need the label to also be a link?
So the Content menu page (admin/content) on a stable production site loaded, and the only menu item listed was Comments...yet, the admin menu in the left nav listed all the usual suspects. WHAT was this?!
Some structures, like an object with member arrays, will have you in a straight-jacket long before you determine where a particular value falls within the structure and how you should construct a reference to it.