On 03/03/2008, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Jim Hu
<jimhu(a)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.