IVOA Thesaurus

Frederic V. Hessman Hessman at Astro.physik.Uni-Goettingen.DE
Thu Nov 1 02:53:16 PDT 2007


On 31 Oct 2007, at 6:54 pm, Ed Shaya wrote:

> What happened to the underscores between all of the compound words?
> Ed

A while back, we communally decided that the tokens should be as  
compact and simple as possible, i.e. no caps, no diacritical marking,  
no spaces, no underscores, not only to make them syntactically simple  
but to emphasize that they are only tokens.  The text file still has  
the underscores, but now only for historical reasons (i.e. the  
original SV proposal).

If everyone would rather see the underscores back again, no problem.

Rick



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