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in thread Editing node titles w.r.t. Perl 6

I like [Perl6] as a differentiator in the topic line -- the square brackets highlight the name a little, and it's a little better than [P6], which, being shorter, has more potential for confusion. (My first thought was -- oh, the chip after the Pentium?)

Alex / talexb / Toronto

Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

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Re^4: Editing node titles w.r.t. Perl 6
by LanX (Saint) on Nov 24, 2016 at 15:38 UTC
    Let's think it trough ...

    If you start an official policy - instead of a convention - to use [Perl6] so why not [vim] or [tk] or [*nix] or [LDAP] ... and so on?

    And is [BioInf] already specific enough or should it be sub-classified into [FASTA] and [Homework] ?

    On a side note ... the monastery has already a keyword nodelet nobody is using.

    update

    I'm in favour of tagging, just the implementation of an efficient rule seems unclear.

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
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        If you start an official policy ..

      *Chortle* Official policy? Oh dear, I'm really not in charge of anything here. :) Except my own thoughts and opinions. However, your suggestion of [$topic] sounds excellent, and is probably one that has been used across forums (fora?) and mailing lists for decades.

      Since this is by default a [Perl] forum, then that tag is redundant. I think it's useful to highlight that a post might be somewhat off-topic by using a tag.

      Alex / talexb / Toronto

      Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

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        We already have this convention and I'm following it.

        But infrequent users or newbies won't.

        And flooding the monastery with considerations to change the title according to a tagging standard wouldn't help either.

        So (sorry) what can be the outcome of this discussion?

        The only practical possibility I see is to upgrade the Keyword Nodelet ... but I don't see who's going implement this.

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)
        Je suis Charlie!

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Re^4: Editing node titles w.r.t. Perl 6 (square brackets are for links not for titles)
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 24, 2016 at 21:02 UTC

    "Tags" should not use square brackets or any metacharacters at all

    [ ] should only be used in questions about syntax that uses [ ] like  @arrays[1] and  /[regexcharclass]/ ... not for "tagging"

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