[Tagging] Removing name_1 and alt_name_1 from Wiki

Hakuch hakuch at posteo.de
Tue Jan 19 18:41:03 UTC 2016


On 19.01.2016 19:25, Colin Smale wrote:
> So how do you indicate a missing/empty value in the middle of the list?
> Does "a;;b" mean a single value of "a;b" or does it mean three values
> "a", "" and "b"?
> 
> The "lanes" tag family uses a different delimiter ("|"), sometimes
> together with a semicolon to make a kind of 2-d array. A double pipe
> ("||") indicates a missing value there. Wouldn't it be nice if we were
> consistent? 

no, that is a complete different situation. The lane-family use
parameters (if you like it or not), so every position has a meaning.

The semicolon is for (unordered) lists, an empty value doesn't make any
sense there.
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