Raul, the boat's just left (...but I guess we can send another boat out after it...)
Actually I (half) agree with you. If you search for the word CamelCase on: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Vocabulary/FormalPageNames you'll see my proposal, which is for a clutch of CamelCase names at wiki root (though this is not explicitly stated). I got no support for that idea so I went ahead with the "consensus". You can see it on: http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NuVoc Somebody felt that CamelCase names were made extra-cumbersome by the mixed-case requirement. They would certainly have made generating NuVoc a lot easier for me. ...but hey, I've done it now. Ian On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Ian Clark <[email protected]> wrote: >> There will be time later to try it out, maybe as a system of aliases >> to the pages I'm just about to generate. > > #redirect makes sense to deal with minor changes introduced in > new versions of J, but that approach seems wrong for the > wholesale introduction of a new naming scheme. > > Could we take a few moments to discuss the advantages of each > different approach? > > First off, there is the issue of whether the pages should be > saved under Vocabulary/ or whether they should be at the > root of the wiki. > > Second, there is the issue of an english mechanism for > transcribing the spelling of a primitive or using the vocabulary > text. > > The advantage of prepending Vocabulary/ is that it makes the > page's role obvious -- it was intended to be a part of this project. > A secondary advantage is that the page does not need to include > any explicit link back to the Vocabulary page -- it automatically > be included because it will be a part of the page's name. > The advantage of omitting Vocabulary/ is that the wikilinks > would be shorter. > > The advantage of using the vocabulary text for the link is that > the automatically included page label would be meaningful > for the user, and would remind the user of which link they > clicked on to get to this page. The advantage of using > words which describe the spelling of the primitive is that > the wikilinks would be shorter. > > Have I overlooked any long-term issues here? > > Thank you, > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
