- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 10:52:26 +0200
- To: Pelle Braendgaard <pelle@stakeventures.com>
- Cc: Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org>, Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAKaEYhJRa8=9mRksofmZ9=ePEZedC3n7rX+cUxe7Pn=jX_1v9w@mail.gmail.com>
On 16 May 2012 16:52, Pelle Braendgaard <pelle@stakeventures.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to read the open tabs spec and it seems really interesting, > here are a few comments. > > For pretty much the same reason that I'm against the JSON LD format's > colon prefix notation I think Hungarian notation is a really bad idea. > I discussed this with michiel on the IRC and we think hungarian is a clever idea, but probably overkill right now. BTW JSON-LD was designed such that you dont need any colons at all in the terms (the magic happens in the @context document, which call be applied later) > > I'd like to strongly recommend against Hungarian notation. It is quite > unreadable and I can't see any benefits at all from it. If possible it's > even more confusing that JSON-LD's colon prefix notation. > +1 > > For these standards to take off they need to be very simple, skimmable > etc. JSON is also commonly translated into methods/attributes in the > programming language used. > > Besides that I'd also still like to recommend the words "from" and "to" > instead of "source" and "destination". I personally believe that if there > are simple synonyms available they should be preferred over longer more > complex terms. This goes for PaySwarm as well of course. > We are starting to use "to" and "from" successfully in read write web social networks using the "pingback" ontology. It is quite an intuitive naming system I think. Webcredits actually has the same fields and pingback + currency + amount. Maybe that's a natural extension then ... > > Finally instead of Ower and Owee I suggest using the the proper English > words Debtor and Creditor. I know these words can be loaded with other > meanings, but still they are the correct terms. > > P > > > > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org>wrote: > >> The webcredits spec was meant to be expanded, and i am now at a point >> where it is not expressive enough for opentabs. Also I think its >> variable naming could be improved using Hungarian prefixes like the >> ones I posted to the rww cg list on Saturday. >> >> So here is a draft version of the concepts i am currently thinking of >> introducing for Opentabs. >> >> https://github.com/unhosted/website/wiki/opentabs-data-format >> >> It's also an experiment about how Hungarian linked data could look, >> and it's also still very much subject to bugs and changes. This may >> change in the future, but i wanted to share it with this cg in case >> anyone has comments at this point. >> >> >> cheers! >> Michiel >> >> > > > -- > -- > http://picomoney.com - A whole new kind of money > http://payglo.be - Blog about payments from a global perspective > >
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