On 03/03/2008, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Jim Hu jimhu@tamu.edu wrote:
Perhaps I am misunderstanding what can and cannot be represented, but the DAG matters a lot to some of us. Consider: Cellular organisms Archaea Bacteria Eukaryotes Animals Vertebrates Invertebrates Plants Fungi etc. These are not correct taxonomy terms, but just for example. How would these be represented? With categories, it's straightforward. I don't see how a flat tag intersection does this.
I don't think there are any plans to remove subcategory functionality. Only unnecessarily specific categories will be ditched, presumably, that logically consist of nothing more or less than an intersection of other categories. Categories like "Plants" don't, so they'd stay.
Yeah, categories that are really intersections of other categories is the case I was thinking of.
So yeah, as I said earlier, I suppose implementing this feature would first require a backend for the existing category feature that can cope with lots of intersection requests all the time.
- d.