Ah, great. Thanks for the answer! I'm glad to hear that it makes
development faster :)

Will the forms be terms too? That *might* even be a solution for the
multiscript issue.

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016, 14:42 Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Am 02.11.2016 um 21:53 schrieb Denny Vrandečić:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am not questioning or criticizing, just curious - why was it decided to
> > implement lemmas as terms? I guess it is for code reuse purposes, but
> just
> > wanted to ask.
>
> Yes, ideed. We have code for rendering, serializing, indexing, and
> searching
> Terms. We do not have any infrastructure for plain strings. We could also
> handle
> it as a monolingual-text StringValue, but that offers less re-use, in
> particular
> no search, and no batch lookup for rendering.
>
> Also, conceptually, the lemma is rather similar to a label. And it's
> always *in*
> a language. The only question is whether we only have one, or multiple (for
> variants/scripts). But one will do for now.
>
>
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