On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Paul LeoNerd Evans <leon...@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:57:42 -0800 > Bill Ward <b...@wards.net> wrote: > >> Why just strings? Why not scalars? > > Because only strings have character positions. > > Perhaps the description isn't clear enough - the string is the thing that > has tags. Tags are name/value pairs that apply to some substring range of > positions of that string. The type of the tag values is not restricted - > any scalar will do. Could even be a CODE ref, for "what to do if someone > clicks here". > > Perhaps I should explain that clearer in the docs...
I must confess I didn't read your docs at all, just going by the name and the basic description I assumed you meant "tagging" in the sense that is used on blogs, Flickr, etc. as a means of organizing or labeling data.
