On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 11:29:33AM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote:
Mark Clements wrote:
If the following statements are all true, then
there is no ambiguity. If
any of them are false then that ambiguity remains:
1) The main namespace can never have a prefix (ns title is always empty)
Yes.
2) All other namespaces _must_ have a prefix
Yes.
3) A namespace title cannot contain a colon
No.
Is there *any reason at all* that this stricture cannot be imposed
post-hoc (IE: now)?
It would seem to make lots of things lots of easier, with almost no
real-world impact.
We have lots of wikis in lots of languages. Are there *ANY* namespaces
in any language with an ASCII colon as a valid character in their name?
Can we think of any other reason not to impose such a stricture?
Cheers,
-- jra
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