2011/7/4 Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com>: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Anthony <o...@inbox.org> wrote: >> Besides, the fact that someone made a mistake back in 2007 is not a >> good reason to make a similar mistake today. There's no good reason >> to replace hyphens with underscores. > > There are plenty of good reasons. The fact that many people seem to > like the hyphen variant means that replacing hyphens with underscores > is not a crazy idea. Plus, we don't have to remember whether a value > has an underscore or a hyphen.
The thing is that a hyphen has another meaning then an underscore. We could also replace "j" with "i" because it looks better, and nobody will ever have to think whether he has to type "j" or "i", but I wouldn't recommend this. There is a good reason to use underscores as replacement for spaces and there is good reason to keep hyphens where they apply to. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
