[Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

[David Bannon]

On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 09:35 +0300, Никита wrote:

> Well you actually smart person out there. Please query for features
> that support bitcoins or coins as currency ....

Come on please ! This is getting quite silly.

regexes are a basic part of the *nix and therefore internet world. Sure
they are cryptic and hard to deal with by those who don't regularly use
them but if we stopped regexe right now a lot more than OSM would stop
working !

Никита, you really need to accept regexe is a widely used technology and
one you really are not going to stamp out. 

David

> 
> 
> http://overpass-turbo.eu/?w=%22payment:coins%22=%22yes%22%20or%20%
> 22payment:bitcoin%22=%22yes%22
> 
> 
> 
> Now try to query for only with bitcoin without litecoin tag:
> "payment:bitcoint"=* and "payment:litecoin"!=*
> 
> 
> 
> Now try to qurery only for features without regular coins:
> ("payment:bitcoint"=* or "payment:litecoin"=*) and "payment:coint"!=*
> 
> 
> 
> If really that dumb to answer questions above using regex, please
> write an regex to filter email address from plain text.
> 
> 
> > Probably because these are for developers, not for users.
> Nonsense like any of your words. 
> 
> 
> How taginfo is for developers?
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/payment%3Acoins#values
> 
> 
> 
> How wiki page is for developers?
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key:payment:coins&redirect=no
> 
> 
> 2015-01-21 9:39 GMT+03:00 Friedrich Volkmann <bsd at volki.at>:
>         On 21.01.2015 03:59, Никита wrote:
>         > You don't know regexes and theory behind them. [...] There
>         always pattern
>         > that will broke your regex.
>         
>         E.g.?
>         
>         > You will never teach your ugly hacks to to OSM users.
>         
>         Probably because these are for developers, not for users.
>         
>         --
>         Friedrich K. Volkmann       http://www.volki.at/
>         Adr.: Davidgasse 76-80/14/10, 1100 Wien, Austria
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