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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 01/21/2015 12:07 PM, Никита wrote:
> *route_ref:De_Lijn:8=yes*
> *route_ref:De_Lijn:9=yes*
> *route_ref:De_Lijn:284=yes*

> I want to see bolded keys in database directly

No. Relations have been invented specifically to avoid this.

Conceputally, the "value" space should not overflow into the "key"
space. While we allow arbitrary keys, we still want them to be keys, not
a mixture of keys and values. We don't want "name:Main Street=yes".

No matter what one thinks about semicolon lists, the above is clearly worse.

Bye
Frederik

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