Re: "number sign" in W3C Manual of Style

What if we remove the "#" entry entirely?

 _ Ian

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 10:02 -0700, Susan Lesch wrote:
> Thomas Baker wrote:
> > Section 12 of the Manual of Style says that "number sign"
> > should be preferred to "crosshatch" when referring to the 
> > symbol "#".
> > 
> > It may be worth noting that in the context of discussing
> > identifiers, e.g. in [2], this symbol is referred to as a
> > "hash".
> 
> Changed to:
> 
>   usually not pound sign, hash, crosshatch or octothorpe
>   but hash namespace in SKOS Core
> 
> Or is the use wider than SKOS? Maybe you will know a better way to describe
> the exception. Thank you.
> 
> > [1] http://www.w3.org/2001/06/manual/
> > [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-swbp-vocab-pub-20060314/
> 
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