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

[Paul Johnson]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Никита <acroq3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wow. Quality of discussion here.
>
> > I even find the second example more difficult to visualize. It's just
> worse than the first in every respect
>
> payment=efectivo;visa;mastercard;american␣express
> payment=mastercard;visa;efectivo
>
> Now try to find *efectivo *with your regexes.
>
> If you want to tell me something about /.**efectivo*.*/ you have no idea
> what OSM about and how regexes work. Say hello to
>
> payment=mastercard;visa;efectivonotinspain
>
> There programmers out there but I'm an idiot and cannot teach how to write
> REGEX to casual user. They are true heros OSM need: http://xkcd.com/208/.
>
> How to query for "payment:efectivo"="yes"? I definitely need regex here.
> Please, help me!
>

Most people (and I don't mean just OpenStreetMap-aware types) *don't care
about the data model*.  That's for the application to deal with.  So, this
is a non-issue for anybody that isn't working directly with the raw data.
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