On Feb 19, 2008 2:10 PM, Jim Ursetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your topic idea is interesting. My opinion, for what it's worth, is that it > imposes too much on the user when required for every definition. Instead, if > any topic indexing is to be done in the future, I think the topics could be > drawn from the egg tags themselves.
Well, it could be handled in a cascading fashion. A tag on the egg would suffice, but a tag on the procedure could enhance or override it. Take an egg like miscmacros, which itself is hard to classify, but whose procedures could be tagged with 'list-manipulation', 'conditionals', etc. > I think using the egg tags (categories) would be sufficient for any future > index. Any more granular and there is a high barrier to entry. Users would > avoid changing entries for fear of putting something in the wrong category; > old hands would get fatigued at choosing topics for every definition. Perhaps, but it would make a nice hackathon job: if the mechanism is there, someone could zip through an egg's doc and tag a few dozen specialized procedures. I agree that in general an egg-level tag is enough; but there are lots of corner cases. Procedure level tags should be optional, but could be useful. Graham _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
