IVOA Thesaurus

[Frederic V. Hessman]

At the time, there where lots of voices saying that, while you are  
perfectly correct (and I'd prefer to have them as humanly readable as  
possible), the realities of computer-based parsing mean that a  
trivial token format costs less pain.

How about an official show of hands?

Rick

On 1 Nov 2007, at 5:32 pm, Ed Shaya wrote:

> Rick,
>
>    Well, I vote to put back the underscores and the capitalization  
> where appropriate.  There is no need to go out of one's way and  
> make all IDs cryptic just to make a point about the concept of  
> tokens.  In ontology these become the element names of instances  
> and it is really handy to be able to readily discern what kind of  
> instance it is by looking, rather than going to some lookup table.   
> We need some prescience here, not to be confused with pre_science.
>
> Ed
>
> Frederic V. Hessman wrote:
>>
>> 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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