[Tagging] Reviving the conditions debate

[Eckhart Wörner]

Hi Colin,

Am Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2012, 18:11:53 schrieb Colin Smale:
> For some reason everyone seems determined to come up with the most 
> complex system imaginable, instead of taking successful ideas from the 
> rest of the world. This trait is what causes many projects to fail. 
> Let's not look at this as simply a discussion about "access tags", but 
> an opportunity to extend the syntax of the current key-value pair system 
> to include flexible extensibility.
> 
> How about something like access:expr=expression, where the expression is 
> in some simple syntax and can reference pseudo-variables like time, day, 
> weather, weight, height etc. Why not use a javascript-compatible syntax? 
> Or a bit of XML? No point in re-inventing the wheel.

my sarcasm detection seems to be broken - are you seriously suggesting JavaScript or XML? Or are you suggesting that the proposal is too complex?

Eckhart