On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Pieren wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Martin Vonwald
> >
> > > Anyone else has a problem with the suggested solution to the lanes=1.5
> > > problem?
> >
> > I think we should simply recommend to not use fractions since they can
> > be misinterpreted by any one (not only applications). I still don't
> > know if 1.5 means
>
> > "an intermediate status between 2 lanes and 1 lane segments"
> > "a wide single lane"
> > "a normal lane plus a half size lane"
> > "two narrow lanes"
>
> ...While I didn't fully understand the first definition. ...I don't find
> much different between those definitions but perhaps you can enlighten me
> if there's anything else than some fancy wordsmithing looking into the
> very same road from different angles? :-)
Btw, IMHO these plurar definitions you gave for the same thing is one
of the reasons why lanes=1.5 appears in the db in the first place.
The width alternative hardly conveys all the same meaning as it cannot
say lanes=1+wide and lanes=2+narrow at the same time!
--
i.
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