[Lispweb] The Common Lisp Directory is online

Thien-Thi Nguyen ttn at glug.org
Thu Dec 15 08:36:18 CST 2005


"Marc Battyani" <Marc.Battyani at fractalconcept.com> writes:

> OK so what are your suggestions for step 1 (categories) and 2
> (descriptions)?

design nit:

for categories vs attributes (aka labels, keywords, etc),
i'm in favor of the latter.  there will always be something
that "belongs" in more than one category.  you can synthesize
categories by grouping attributes, but not the other way around.

if you push category synthesis to user-customizable level,
that would be the nice (to users) hack.  the user's ontology
is something you want to avoid messing with -- users are weird!

thi




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