Re: draft PR doc on ucd-words

From: Jonathan McDowell <jcm-at-head.cfa.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:24:49 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Andrea Preite Martinez wrote:
> Note for the Sci-board: I included the last comments. I also had to modify a
> number of words to be compliant with the UCD-Rec document ("... for any two
> words at the same level in the hierarchy, one can't be a starting substring
> of the other..."), so
>
> old version =============> new version
>
> phot.fluxDensity phot.fluDensity

I agree with Doug. I hate the new versions. I think the "can't be a starting substring" was put in to make some kinds of searching easier, but I never found the argument convincing and would argue that we should instead remove this restriction from the UCD-Rec document.

Received on 2005-07-11Z19:25:07