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Old 09-04-2024, 07:29 PM   #1
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Why was the period chosen for the separator character?
Out of curiosity, why is the period the separator character for hierarchical columns? I would expect either back or forward-slash.
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Old 09-04-2024, 07:34 PM   #2
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slashes mean FOLDER on many OS
IIRC it was only 8.3 (DOS) file naming that only allowed 1 period.
+ means concatenation, so that was out
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Considering that a) the folder structure is meant as a black box and b) most (or all) punctuation gets normalized to _ anyways, not sure how that would factor in?
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Considering that a) the folder structure is meant as a black box and b) most (or all) punctuation gets normalized to _ anyways, not sure how that would factor in?
You are correct for INSIDE the Library. But what about Send To .... ?
I am not sure if it was Charles or Kovid that came up with the dot
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Just a guess: periods are used in a lot of programming languages (including Python) to indicate properties and methods of objects, which can themselves be objects, allowing nested objects of any number of levels. As a programmer, I find a period-separated hierarchy feels natural. No doubt Kovid does too.
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Dots are less intrusive than Slashes and Sloshes

ALGEBRA.ARCADIA, Algebra.Arcadia
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ALGEBRA/ARCADIA, ALGEBRA\ARCADIA, Algebra/Arcadia, Algebra\Arcadia
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Old 09-04-2024, 10:28 PM   #7
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Many excellent reasons have been posted, for me it was that slashes exist in tags already for example, SciFi/Fantasy is a common tag. Periods are less common in tags from general metadata sources.
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