[talk-au] Use of equals symbol within keys

Andrew Harvey andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 21 13:06:09 BST 2012


On 21/08/12 11:35, Ben Johnson wrote:
> As a person with some coding experience, I find this use of = inside a
> key slightly disturbing, as = is the separator between a key and a
> value, plus this method requires duplication of the root element's
> original value.  I'm thinking the 2 keys are better written simply like....
> 
> source:bicycle = http://www.bicycleinfo.nsw.gov.au/downloads/hornsby.pdf
> source:cycleway = http://www.bicycleinfo.nsw.gov.au/downloads/hornsby.pdf
> 

Defiantly. Feel free to fix this.

I would probably even use source_ref:bicycle in these cases where you
are pointing to a URL, but I'm not fussed either way, it is up to you.

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