Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: taglines vs explicit

[Robert Anderson]

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 23:08, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Sheesh.  Andrea's obvious predisposition to explicit tagging[1] (or
> Davide's) has no relation to whether the _name_ "tagline" is confusing
> to many users.

It has a relation to whether it was confusing or misleading them, and it
seems pretty clear to me that it was.

> I think that for short "keyword" names, it makes sense to consider the
> primary usage.  For tagline, the intended usage is embedded tags where
> possible, and explicit tags where not.

You've described implicit mode more closely than tagline.

Bob